Feed Drop: Well-Read Black Girl - Min Jin Lee on Becoming a Writer

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We're sharing a special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries.

Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Glory Edim, author and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl community, sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Elizabeth Acevedo and more. You’ll also meet book club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read.

In this preview, Glory talks with Korean American author and teacher Min Jin Lee. Min talks about how reading can radicalize young people — in a good way — and how, through storytelling, we can approach a "new reality” by creating a version of the world we want to see.

You can listen to Well-Read Black Girl at https://link.chtbl.com/wrbgoverdue.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.2	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.5	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:43.1	Hey everybody, it's Craig.
0:53.1	We wanted to share a new podcast with you that we think you'll love.
1:03.2	For a wide reading community, she's launching the Well-Red Black Girl podcast.
1:28.7	We have a preview of Glorious Conversation with Korean American author and teacher
1:42.7	Minjin Lee.
1:43.7	We hope you enjoy this and you can hear more episodes of Well-Red Black Girl wherever
2:05.0	you get your podcasts.
2:07.0	You're not only a phenomenal writer, you're also an incredible lawyer as well.
2:20.0	Your trajectory has just had so many unconventional turns.
2:24.5	But can we start at the beginning on how you even decided to write this story, how you
2:29.9	even change from being a lawyer to being a writer?
2:33.1	What was that process like for you?
2:34.6	Oh gosh, I was 25.
2:41.6	I was 25 when I was really unhappy as a lawyer.
2:44.8	I was a lawyer for one year.
2:46.6	And then 26.
2:48.2	I was still working really hard as a lawyer.
2:51.4	And then one day I got a really super hard assignment after finishing another super hard
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