Novelist Min Jin Lee (‘Pachinko’) Has Something to Teach Us
Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2026 · 1 h 29
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“The rules of engagement have changed already.”
Novelist Min Jin Lee (Pachinko) is a beacon of wit and wisdom. She returns to the show this week with American Hagwon (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/min-jin-lee/ameri…), the long-awaited third installment in her Korean diaspora quartet.
We begin with the ten-year process of writing American Hagwon (), the thesis guiding the novel (), and her experiences with education after immigrating from South Korea to Queens, New York (). Then, Lee describes her process conducting thousands of interviews for the book (), her relationship to security (), and the staggering effects of media on young people ().
On the back-half, we talk about her years at Yale (), how her legal training at Georgetown shaped her approach to fiction (), and the risks of artificial intelligence (). To close, Lee unpacks the dreams we defer for our families (), her advice to “choose the important over the urgent” (), and the premise for her next novel, Marshall Plan ().
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