Min Jin Lee on Writing Slowly, Confidence, Rejections, 19th Century Social Novels, Outlining, Big Frank, Despondency, Neurotic Lawyering, Cirrhosis, and Mortality

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Brad Listi

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 455, my conversation with author Min Jin Lee. The episode first aired on January 9, 2019. Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2022, Lee received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. In 2023, Lee served as the Editor of Best American Short Stories. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.4	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Other People podcast. I am Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles. Thank you for
0:30.1	tuning in. Hope you're doing okay. Happy Friday. It is time for a new flashback episode. Today, we're going to be flashing back to
0:43.4	episode 455, my conversation with author Minjin Lee. It first aired on March 1st, 2017.
0:55.0	Minjin Lee is the author of a novel entitled Pichenko.
0:59.1	It was published in 2017 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
1:06.2	It was runner up for the Dayton Literary Peace, and it won the Medici Book Club Prize.
1:15.2	Pachinko was named by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017.
1:20.1	It was a New York Times bestseller, and was also named one of the 10 best books of the year
1:26.5	for BBC and the New York Public Library.
1:31.4	Minjin Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was a national bestseller,
1:37.1	and her writings over the years have appeared in a variety of publications,
1:42.3	including The New Yorker, One Story,
1:45.6	the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement,
1:51.2	The Guardian, and elsewhere.
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