Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street (newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/24/helen-on-eig…),” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the author of three novels: “Free Food for Millionaires (amazon.com/dp/153872202X);” “Pachinko (amazon.com/dp/1455563927);” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, in 2017, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in 2018; and “American Hagwon (amazon.com/dp/1538752034),” which was excerpted (newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/testing-fict…) in The New Yorker and will be published in September.

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