'I do think literature abuses children a little,' says Yiyun Li, who spoke to us about editing, translation, cover art, and her new story collection, 'Wednesday's Child.'
tells me she loves to cut. Like a kindly doctor with a nervous patient, or an assassin, she sets the reader at ease with the gentle manner of her deceptively simple prose, then jabs them in the arm, or the gut, mercifully, with sharp, poignant needles of beautiful, raw humanity.
LI: I do think literature abuses children a little. They prove them dumb, right? Cute animals, or sad animals. Sometimes, they’re traumatized animals. I don’t know about you, when I was a child, I never thought I was a child, that I was cute or small. I was just a human being. I had very complex feelings and thoughts. Nobody wanted to hear me. Children are innately very logical, sensible human beings. I think they have the disadvantage of being small.
LI: That’s a great question. Books really are part of our genes, I feel, despite the fact that books are books. So my genealogy would be rational novels from very early on. And Irish novels: William Trevor, John McGahern, and Lisa Baldwin, particularly those three. Certainly, when I was younger, I read a lot of Chinese novels. But, when I started to write in English, I read a lot of American novelists.
LI: Kim is a genius, I think. She is undoubtedly a genius. I’m not a visual person. But I am fairly certain both covers were first drafts. She got it right away, I think. And when I saw them, I knew. I don’t know her process, but I find her imagination so fascinating.At one time, she did say she went to the museum to see paintings, and the backdrops of both cover’s backdrops have a little bit of classic pastoral painting. I just got really lucky with her.LI: Okay, let me just speak with grace.
BELL: I argue with my husband about that all the time. When he reads my characters, he wants to know exactly what they look like. And I’m just like, “I don’t think about that.”
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