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Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li

An episode of the Literary Friction podcast, hosted by Literary Friction, titled "Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li" was published on November 11, 2022 and runs 61 minutes.

November 11, 2022 ·61m · Literary Friction

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When it comes to fiction, why are people so obsessed with authenticity and so appalled by literary deception? Does it matter who tells a story? And what do novels that confront these ideas have to tell us? Our guest this month is the writer Yiyun Li, whose latest novel The Book of Goose is about an intense friendship between two girls in rural postwar France. When Agnes and Fabienne write a book of stories together, a simple lie about the book’s authorship sends Agnes’ life in an unexpected direction. So in honour of their act of literary creation - and...
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