Yiyun Li: Techniques and Idiosyncrasies

Wed Feb 25 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-05:00

Gasson Hall | Newton

Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Publisher/HostLowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Yiyun Li: Techniques and Idiosyncrasies
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Yiyun Li, award-winning author and professor of creative writing, joins the Lowell Humanities Series.
About this Event

Yiyun Li is the author of eleven books, including Things in Nature Merely Grow, The Book of Goose, Where Reasons End, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, and Tolstoy Together, 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Best American Short Stories, O Henry Prize Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. Li’s honors and awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Windham Campbell Prize, a PEN/Jean Stein Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Nabokov Award, and others. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, an independent film directed by Wayne Wang and adapted by Li from her short story, was the winner of Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. She is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Creative Writing. 

Cosponsored by the Boston College Fiction Days Series and Asian American Studies Program.

All Lowell Humanities Series lectures are free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required for in-person attendance.

The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.

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Gasson Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, United States

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