The Immigrant Experience (with Min Jin Lee)

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Min Jin Lee is one of the most celebrated authors of our time. She wrote Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, which was a National Book Award Finalist. Lee, who is Korean American, often writes about Asian American identity and the immigrant experience. Preet spoke with Lee about the political value of “Asian American” as a category, the problem with the debate over affirmative action, and her famously rigorous research process. Plus, analysis of the upcoming January 6 Committee hearings, a grand jury indictment of the Buffalo supermarket shooter, and how Donald Trump could become Speaker of the House. In the bonus for CAFE Insiders, Lee discusses the politics of hard work, and what makes someone a “functioning introvert.” To listen, try the membership for just $1 for one month: cafe.com/insider. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/the-immigrant-experience-with-min-jin-lee/ Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we get to the show, I want to mention that my interview with Minjin Lee was recorded
0:05.2	on Monday, one day before the horrific, horrific shooting in Texas.
0:11.1	It's surreal to have to say this again, but there was another shooting at the Rob Elementary
0:15.5	School in Texas.
0:17.1	As of this recording, the death toll stands at 21 people, 19 children, and two adults,
0:24.5	dead because they simply went to school.
0:27.5	To be completely honest, I don't even know what to say.
0:30.6	It's as heartbreaking as anything you could ever imagine.
0:33.8	Now the news will keep unfolding, and the legal parts of the case will too.
0:38.0	But right now all I can say is how heartbroken I am, and you almost be, for the families
0:42.6	and victims of this horrific massacre, which happens again, and again, and again in
0:49.0	just one country, the United States of America.
0:53.0	We need sensible gun legislation.
0:55.4	I don't know how many more times we'll have to say something like this.
0:58.8	And for now, I just hope that the Republicans holding up gun control legislation in the
1:03.6	Senate wake up and have a change of heart.
1:10.5	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
1:16.3	I'm Pete Barara.
1:18.4	All my life I've always leaned into my identity, and it's okay.
1:22.0	I mean, people usually say, I don't want to be an Asian American writer, I want to be
1:25.5	a writer.
1:26.8	And I kind of think, well, I'm not leaving my identity or my experience at the door to
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