Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li is an episode from The New Yorker: Fiction by The New Yorker.

This episode is 01:16:55 long.

This episode was published on Jan 1, 2026.

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