Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ The Piano Tuner’s Wives ,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “ Must I Go ” and “ Book of Goose ,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “ Wednesday’s Child ,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “ Things in Nature Merely Grow ,” will be published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor is an episode from The New Yorker: Fiction by The New Yorker.

This episode is 01:11:01 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2025.

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