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Yiyun Li Thinks Wearing a Mask Is Common Sense

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Yiyun Li shares how her career in science has helped her stay disciplined while writing, talks about how her immunology background is helpful during the pandemic and how her life has followed the fiction she writes.

Available until 08/12/21
Appearing:Seth Meyers
Tags: late night, Seth Meyers, Yiyun Li, Thinks, Wearing a Mask, Common Sense
S7 E1407 minInterviewTalk and InterviewLate Night
2019-2020
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