War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869
"I read War and Peace and Moby-Dick every year, each book taking six months-I read one for sublime realism, and the other for sublime metaphors."
Spotted in Interview: Yiyun Li, Author of Dear Friend
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Yiyun Li
Novelist and MacArthur fellow
Chinese-American novelist, MacArthur fellow, and Princeton creative-writing professor. She reads War and Peace and Moby-Dick every year, six months each.
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"I read War and Peace and Moby-Dick every year, each book taking six months-I read one for sublime realism, and the other for sublime metaphors."
Spotted in Interview: Yiyun Li, Author of Dear Friend
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"Some of our favorites included Kipling's Kim; many Bowen novels; Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower and The Beginning of Spring."
Spotted in Yiyun Li Remembers Edmund White
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