Description
Chinese-American fiction writer Yiyun Li is the author of
The Vagrants,
Kinder Than Solitude, and
Gold Boy,
Emerald Girl. Her debut short story collection,
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Guardian First Book Award, among other accolades. She is the recipient of a 2010 MacArthur genius grant and was named among
The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” Li is a contributing editor at
A Public Space and teaches at the University of California, Davis.
Part of
Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2016
Moderated by Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman is the fiction editor at
The New Yorker. She is the host of that publication’s award-winning fiction podcast, the editor of the anthology
20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, and the recipient of the 2012 Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.
Executive Chef: Tsering Nyima
Tsering Nyima joined Great Performances as BAMcafé’s executive chef in 2010. His culinary experience is grounded in French, Indian, New American, German, Austrian, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines. Nyima was born in eastern Tibet and left at age 14 for a life of exile in India, where, at a Buddhist monastery, he learned how to cook. Nearly a decade later, he came to New York and mastered his cooking skills and knowledge under the guidance of Laurent Tourondel (BLT Steak, BLT Burger, Brasserie Ruhlmann), Gary Robins (Moko), Kurt Gutenbrunner (Wallse, Blaue Gans), and Tadeo Mikami (Hatsuhana).
