Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li
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Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Yiyun Li's story 'A Small Flame'.
Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Lot” and the novels “Memorial,” “Family Meal,” and “Palaver,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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