with Min Jin Lee, Novelist
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Add to calendarOn over reporting, historical invisibility, and making a reader in Ohio grieve for a market stallholder in Osaka.
Interpreted live in Korean and English; both audiences laughed in different places. Episode 119's second half is this night.
Born in Seoul and raised in Queens, Lee trained as a lawyer before writing full time. She carried Pachinko for nearly thirty years, abandoning a completed draft in her forties after interviews in Tokyo convinced her the story belonged to the women of the family, not the men.
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Live recordingUpcomingFree Food for Millionaires · Warner Books, 2007
with Min Jin Lee, Novelist
National Book Award finalist, 2017
Min Jin Lee on the draft she abandoned in her forties, and the Tokyo interviews that told her whose story it was.
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WorkshopUpcomingPachinko · Grand Central, 2017
with Min Jin Lee, Novelist
National Book Award finalist, 2017
Lee brings the 1996 draft of the novel that became Pachinko and reads the opening she threw away.
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