Sunday Pick: Min Jin Lee | from Design Matters
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, happy Sunday, Elise Hugh here. |
| 0:06.4 | And as we often do on Sundays, today we are sharing an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you. |
| 0:15.2 | In honor of World Book Day, which was just a few days ago, we reached into our archives for one of our favorite interviews |
| 0:21.3 | with an author. |
| 0:22.4 | So in this Design Matters conversation |
| 0:24.4 | from 2022, |
| 0:26.0 | host Debbie Millman speaks with Minjin Lee, |
| 0:28.5 | the author of award-winning novels |
| 0:30.2 | Pacinko and Free Food for Millionaires. |
| 0:33.1 | They discuss Minjin's remarkable career |
| 0:35.1 | and the long and intentional journey |
| 0:36.8 | behind her Korean |
| 0:37.8 | diaspora novels. You can find episodes of Design Matters wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.7 | Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com. I think being admirable and being competent is very different than being an artist. |
| 1:03.0 | It's almost like the difference between being pretty and being beautiful. |
| 1:06.0 | It's like a really different level of vulnerability and exposure. |
| 1:11.6 | From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. |
| 1:22.6 | For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, |
| 1:26.6 | how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. |
| 1:31.3 | On this episode, Minjin Lee talks about her values as a writer. |
| 1:35.3 | I am creating this world in which there's meaning. |
| 1:38.3 | I am arguing deeply against a postmodern world. |
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