Jung Yun

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Jung Yun joins Rhett from Baltimore, MD to talk about the making of her recently-released second novel, O Beautiful, and actualizing her vision to live a creative life. Jung and Rhett also discuss the journey that led to her publishing her first book at age 43, growing up without the understanding that she could make art for a living, and why everything happens in due time. Jung Yun is a writer from Seoul, South Korea who grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. She studied at Vassar College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Indiana Review, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She currently lives in Baltimore with her husband and is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.9	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	We started up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:16.9	Oh, I like you, I could not.
0:19.6	That's when they got wheels off. There's a story we tell ourselves that.
0:23.6	There's a story we tell ourselves that if you don't get started early, you'll never get started.
0:29.8	If you're not a prodigy, you don't stand a chance.
0:33.8	If you're not the first one out of the gate, there's no way you can win the race.
0:39.5	I tell myself that story at least, and it's a narrative that has served me poorly over the years.
0:47.3	It's kept me from doing things that I might have otherwise done.
0:53.0	Dreams that I might have realized, have gone unrealized because of this narrative that I might have otherwise done. Dreams that I might have realized,
0:55.0	have gone unrealized because of this narrative that I tell myself,
0:58.0	and I would bet that I'm not the only one.
1:02.0	Jung Yun is living proof that you don't have to
1:08.0	get started early.
1:10.0	You don't have to have an MFA when you're 22 years old.
1:16.0	You don't have to publish your first novel before you hit 30.
1:20.4	She published her first novel Shelter at 43.
1:24.7	She's about to release her second novel, Oh Beautiful.
1:28.1	And she's widely regarded, with good reason, as one of the greatest writers of her generation.
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