Jan 1, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 12 segments
Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction…
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Deborah TreismanHostShe had studied with a tutor since she was seven, something unheard of among her schoolmates in Beijing in 1985.
What Bella had wanted to play, instead of Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, was the Little Match Girl.
The story was chosen by Bryan Washington, who's the author of four books of fiction, including the novels Family Meal and Palaver, which came out last year and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
She had studied with a tutor since she was seven, something unheard of among her schoolmates in Beijing in 1985.
What Bella had wanted to play, instead of Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, was the Little Match Girl.
The story was chosen by Bryan Washington, who's the author of four books of fiction, including the novels Family Meal and Palaver, which came out last year and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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