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Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Name: Conversation with Yiyun Li on her new novel Music Against the Night, presented by the Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
Start: 2026-10-30T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-30T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

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October 2026
Conversation with Yiyun Li on her new novel Music Against the Night, presented by the Fund for Irish Studies and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University

October 30 • 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall Fine Hall, Princeton, NJ, United States

Yiyun Li, Pulitzer Prize winner and Princeton Professor of Creative Writing, launches her new novel, Music Against the Night, a historical saga tracing the life of Irish composer and pianist John Field (1782–1837). Known as the inventor of the nocturne, Field is portrayed from his musical upbringing in Dublin to his success in Russia. The...

Free

October 2026