{"id":298,"date":"2014-10-20T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:01:43","slug":"yiyunli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/yiyunli\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear MacArthur Genius Yiyun Li read her work at the Library of Congress (Oct 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: University of Iowa | Thumbnail photo: The Guardian<\/p><\/div>\n

When Yiyun Li immigrated from China\u00a0to the United States in 1996, she hadn’t written any works in either Chinese or English. Yet, over the course of the past two decades, she earned an MFA at the University of Iowa \u2013 one of the nation’s most respected writing programs, published\u00a0four novels, began teaching writing at the University of California, Davis, and was\u00a0awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant.<\/p>\n

While much of her writing is informed by her Chinese American immigrant experience, the versatility of her writing goes far beyond her suggested category. Her latest novel,\u00a0Kinder Than Solitude <\/em>(2014), takes place amidst the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, yet was described by The New York Times<\/em> as “a murder mystery, properly executed.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, October 30, the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center<\/a>\u00a0will join the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center<\/a>, the Asian American Literary Review<\/a> and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland<\/a>\u00a0in presenting Ms. Li for a reading, book signing and discussion on Asian American literature. Join us for an afternoon with the writer who Bridget Hughes, editor of\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>, describes as “an individual not defined by society, history or even her native language.”<\/p>\n

Asian American Literature Today
\nwith Yiyun Li
\n<\/strong>Thursday October 30, 4:00pm
\nLibrary of Congress,\u00a0James Madison Building
\nMumford Room, 6th Floor
\n101 Independence Ave, SE
\nWashington, D.C.
\nMap & directions<\/a>\u00a0| Facebook RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n

Free & open to the public (Book sale & signing available)
\nContact: poetry@loc.gov<\/a> or 202-707-5394<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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