Min Jin Lee

Fallout Central Interview with Min Jin Lee

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Upstairs at the Square

Min Jin Lee at the Asia Society

Columbia University Conference “Fear of Flying” Can a Feminist Classic Be an American Classic?

New York Times Podcast

Martha Southgate on the vanishing black literary novel; Liesl Schillinger on Min Jin Lee; and Dwight Garner, senior editor, with best-seller news… [podcast]

WAMC Roundtable

As I Am

The Pilot features up and coming author Min Jin Lee as she discusses her new book Free Food for Millionaires with Boston College’s Professor Min Hyoung Song ...

Viewpoint with Jean Dean

Jean’s first guest was Dr. Michael Doyle MS, Ph.D, Director, Center for Food Safety. Jean’s second half hour was with Min Jin Lee, author of “Free Food For Millionaires.”

NPR: KQED The Writer’s Block

Audio: Happy Ending Reading Series

Tonight, Amanda throws candy at the crowd, it being so close to Halloween and all. And then she is bench-pressed by Benjamin Percy. All wince as Roy Kesey waxes his legs as a performance art/act of protest against the Bush administration. And Min Jin Lee lightens it up a bit by telling us a dirty joke while balancing a spoon — on her nose. They all also read engagingly, even enticingly, and the music is by Max Gabriel.

The Happy Ending Reading Series is curated by Amanda Stern.

Radio New Zealand

Nine To Noon ...
by Min Jin Lee (Hutchinson, ISBN 9780091796181)

NPR, Fresh Air

Min Jin Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires tells the story of a young Korean-American woman whose Ivy League education exposes her ...

NPR Booktour

Keeping up with the Joneses isn’t easy ‚Äî even if you’re a fashion-conscious young woman with an Ivy League degree, a strong sense of ...

NPR Tell Me More

Min Jin Lee wanted to capture the experience of children of immigrants living in America. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, tells the story of Casey Han, a daughter of Korean immigrants living in New York. Lee discusses her book and the passion behind her writing.

NPR On Point

A conversation with Korean-American novelist Min Jin Lee. She’s getting robust praise for her debut novel “Free Food for Millionaires.”

NPR Talk of the Nation

I am really interested in reading though I haven’t read them yet - Min Jin Lee’s‚ Free Food for Millionaires.‚ It’s about the child of immigrant ...

“Forget the Comparisons, She’s Unique” - Newsweek

From the interview:
Newsweek: But there was so much adultery in the book! Everyone was sleeping around and breaking up with each other. It’s sort of a dim view of love.

Min Jin Lee: Love is an absolutely tantalizing, beautiful thing. And yet, it is profoundly disappointing, too. I think adultery is a wonderful metaphor of betrayal. Sex is this intimate act between two people. In its highest form, we believe that it’s to be held sacred between two people who love each other. And that’s the reason why adultery always wounds us so much. But, if you take that as a metaphor, you can have adultery in friendship, you can have adultery in any intimate relationship.

New York Times Paperback Row

"This accomplished first novel, the coming-of-age story of a Princeton-educated Korean-American woman making her way in New York City in the 1990s, recalls the Victorian novels its heroine devours. Our reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, described it as ‘packed with tales of flouted parental expectations, fluctuating female friendships and rivalries, ... romantic hopes and losses, and high-stakes career gambles.’”

Bay Area Authors’ Books Among Best of ‘07

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes (Crown) by Tess Uriza Holthe; Free Food for Millionaires (Warner) by Min Jin Lee; The Gathering (Black Cat/Grove) by Anne ...

– San Francisco Chronicle

Psychiatric Services, A Journal of the American Psychiatric Association

In her first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee largely succeeds in unraveling the story of postcollege, Korean immigrant Casey Han, who is still challenged by her family traditions while striving for acceptance and personal fulfillment in the largely assimilated world of New York high finance. As the main character’s life unfolds, Lee masterfully reveals the fallible interpersonal relationships that define Han’s struggle. She also manages to tell the story from multiple perspectives, allowing the characters richness and authenticity that is often missing in the single point of view.

New York Daily News

A first novel tells a sexy story of young Korean…

– New York Daily News

Entertainment Weekly

Free Food for Millionaires is different from any book I’ve ever read — a big, juicy, commercial Korean-American coming-of-age novel, one that could spawn a satisfying miniseries, and one that definitely belongs in this summer’s beach bag.

Washington Times

Trying on different hats

– Washington Times

Virginian Pilot

In ‘Free Food,’ Lee takes an exquisite…

– Virginian Pilot

Walk This Way (ed. Rebecca Walker, forthcoming 2008)

Why I’m A Democrat (ed. Susan Mulcahy, forthcoming 2008)

Sex, Debt, and Revenge: Balzac’s Cousin Bette

Sex, Debt, and Revenge: Balzac’s Cousin BetteBy MIN JIN LEE. Not too long ago, my friend Harold told me that if he didn’t have to earn a living, ...

“Pushing Away the Plate” in To be Real (ed. Rebecca Walker, Doubleday)

“Will” in Breeder

Savetheassistants

Min Jin Lee’s debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, tells a story many of us can identify with. Casey, the daughter of working-class Korean immigrants in ...

Asian American Writer’s Workshop

Min Jin Lee Min Jin Lee’s upcoming debut novel, Free Food for ... Min Jin Lee: A pre-sell tour is when a publisher sends an author out around the country to ...

newyorkbookfestival.com

New York Book Festival
Runners-Up: Free Food For Millionaires – Min Jin Lee Hard-Boiled Men – Guy Jacobs HONORABLE MENTION: Crossing the Wire - Robert Kornhiser ...

Angry Asian Man

Here’s an interview with Min Jin Lee from Newsweek: Forget the Comparisons. ... And here’s Min Jin Lee on NPR’s Tell Me More: Author Min Jin Lee: ‘Free Food ...

Conversationsfamouswriters

If you want a thick, extremely well written literary novel then rush out and pick up Free Food For Millionaires. It took me a while to read but every night I crawled into bed with it and marveled at how Min Jin Lee crafted this satisfying novel that weaves together so many themes.

Latestbooks.org

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee gives us an insight into the lives ... Min Jin Lee has received the 2004 Narrative prize for her short story “Axis ...

Brijit.com

Brijit provides original min-jin-lee abstracts for busy, smart readers.

Northwestasianweekly.com

Weighing in at a mammoth 560 pages, Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires is ...

Politics-Prose.com

... Min Jin Lee, in her first novel, paints a vast New York landscape that brings to mind ...

Historywire.com

As the face of America becomes stunningly diverse, the need for competent cultural translators grows apace...Now, in her first novel, Korean-American writer Min Jin Lee helps us understand Koreans as they grapple to grab the first rung of the economic ladder.

Notebookmagazine.com

Min Jin Lee. Hutchinson. New Yorker Casey Han is fresh out of university and ... This is Min Jin Lee’s first novel and it is an engrossing read about love ...

Narrativemagazine.com

Free Food for Millionaires was Reviewed by Lacy Crawford in Narrative Magazine in the First and Second Looks section (requires registration). ...

Bookreporter.com

Min Jin Lee gets into the heads of a dry cleaner operator and a Julliard alumnus, an aging bookstore owner and a stockbroker on Wall Street. ...

USA Today

Critic’s pick: Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central, $13.99). USA TODAY’s Carol Memmott says this “vastly ambitious” and “stirring” ...

Weighing In

In a lifelong struggle with her shape that spans relationships, career changes, and now a move halfway around the world, Min Jin Lee charts the seismic shifts in her life by the numbers on the scale.

Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club Selection

Min Jin Lee on Leaders, Good Girls and the Discomforts of Wealth
The Juggle spoke yesterday with Min Jin Lee, author of “Free Food for Millionaires” the third book in our Juggle book club. Ms. Lee called us from Tokyo, where she lives with her husband and 10-year-old son, and where she’s working on…

Eugeneweekly.com

Casey, the fictional character at the heart of Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires, can’t quite figure out how to fit her upper-class tastes into the world of her parents, Korean immigrants who work for a dry cleaning chain.

Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP in Elmhurst, New York, it was a special day when I had enough coins for an Annabelle’s Rocky ...

Lonestarlibrarian

The life and times of a Korean American girl from Queens who goes to Princeton, ...

EverydayIwritethebook

I was fortunate enough to meet Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires, at a reading here in DC a few months ago. She had read my first blog post about her book, and graciously signed my copy. A few months later, when I posted ...

Mixed Race America

For the last few days I’ve been engrossed in a novel by Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

Crowning Glory

– Vogue

Olsson’s Bookstore

Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires, one of my favorite books this year, will be appearing at US-Korea Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) next week, and Olsson’s will be ...

The Publishing Spot

A discussion of how to publish, specialty publishers, publishing companies, publishing opportunities, publishing agents, etc.

The Publishing Spot

This week I’m interviewing first-time novelist, Min Jin Lee about how she mastered this 19th Century technique in her new book. It’s called Free Food for Millionaires, an epic novel employing some unfamiliar writing tools that all ...

Asia Pacific Arts

Then comes Min Jin Lee and her acclaimed new novel Free Food for Millionaires, which takes a Jane Austen-type look at love, education, ...

Outofthewoods.com

But Min Jin Lee is unrelentingly fair to her characters, letting us into their heads .... Min Jin Lee (posting over at Chekhov’s Mistress) on Middlemarch: ...

Jen’s Book Reviews

Leave your world behind and explore this story set against an interesting cultural backdrop. This is a book I thought about often at work, and could not wait to get home and dive into the story ...

My Other Village: Middlemarch by George Eliot

As ever, books were my consolation. My family immigrated to Queens, New York in March of 1976 when I was seven. My two sisters and I enrolled at PS 102 that spring so I had three months of second grade then went on to the third grade in ...

Sun-Sentinel

Here’s what we know about Casey Han, the heroine of Min Jin Lee’s sprawling first novel: She’s the daughter of…

Read This (Life and Arts)

The first novel by Min Jin Lee looks at the precarious time after college graduation when dreams may not be realized, carefully laid plans can collapse and ...

– Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Page 99 Test

Min Jin Lee has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her work has also been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and ...

55 Secret Street

Min Jin Lee is the author of the fantastic, critically-acclaimed novel Free Food for Millionaires. You may remember it as one of my 55 Summer Favorites. Min went to Yale where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction ...

Newsweek Interview

Min Jin Lee’s ambitious debut novel, “Free Food for Millionaires,” has been showered with ... Min Jin Lee: We migrated from Korea to the US when I was 7. ...

Writerinterviews

Min Jin Lee is the author of Free Food for Millionaires. From an interview posted on her website:. Q: You’ve chosen to write this book showing many points of view. Is there a reason why? More than anything, I wanted to try to write ...

The New York Times

In her accomplished and engrossing first novel, the Yale-and-Georgetown-law-educated writer Min Jin Lee tells the story of an angry young ...

New York Times

As a capable young woman, Casey Han felt compelled to choose respectability and success. But it was glamour and insight that she craved. ...

Whatarewritersreading

On the fiction front, I just read Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, in one fell swoop. It’s (a huge book) about Ivy League-educated Korean Americans in New York City. I stayed up until 4 am because it is a subtle page-turner ...

The Observer, Guardian

When stalking is the only comfort
The Observer - Jun 24, 2007
Min Jin Lee explores the most fundamental crisis of immigrants’ children: how to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans, gaping between ...

Largehearted Boy: Book Notes Archives

Book Notes - Min Jin Lee ("Free Food for Millionaires").

Yourself First

Guest Essay : Pay Yourself First
Min Jin Lee is the author of Free Food for Millionaires

Biblical Illiteracy or Reading the Bestseller

Biblical Illiteracy or Reading the Bestseller. Writers Often Agree That the Bible Is a Good Book. OPINION By MIN JIN LEE

The Urban Muse

Min Jin Lee is yet another example of the lawyer-turned-writer phenomenon. This Yale alum is the author of Free Food for Millionaires, a delightful debut novel about a recent college grad trying to reconcile the thriftiness of her ...

Privilege and Poverty - A Rebellious Young Korean Woman Gets a Crash…

Casey Han has just graduated from Princeton on scholarship, when a visit to her parents’ apartment turns ...

– Charlotte Observer

Pattinase

Summer Picks from The Boston Herald

San Francisco Chronicle

Poor people stay poor because “they spend all their money on pride.” So says one of the characters in Min Jin Lee’s expansive first novel ...

– San Francisco Chronicle

The Missouri Review

Five years ago we published a story called “Motherland” by an emerging author named Min Jin Lee. We were unanimous in our admiration of what was later selected as the best fiction of that volume year. It’s the story of a Japanese woman ..

OC Register

The real lessons come after college is over
OCRegister - Jun 3, 2007
The first novel by Min Jin Lee ‚ a Korean immigrant who went to Yale University, looks at the precarious time after college graduation when dreams may not ...

The Chronicle Journal

In Free Food, Lee takes exquisite look at life’s uncertainties
Chronicle Journal - The Chronicle Journal - Jun 2, 2007
The first novel by Min Jin Lee - a Korean immigrant who went to Yale University - looks at the precarious time after college graduation when dreams may not ...

– The Chronicle Journal

Audrey Magazine

In her debut novel Free Food for Millionaires, author Min Jin Lee tackles the rarely explored world of modern Asian America in novel form with familiar ...

Beattiesbookblog

This new title, published 1 July, by Korean American writer Min Jin Lee is causing a stir. ...

Daily Camera

The first novel by Min Jin Lee - a Korean immigrant who went to Yale University - looks at the precarious time after college graduation when .

San Francisco Chronicle

Novel Looks at Life’s Uncertainties
San Francisco Chronicle - May 30, 2007
The first novel by Min Jin Lee — a Korean immigrant who went to Yale University — looks at the precarious time after college graduation when dreams may not ...

– San Francisco Chronicle

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Novelist Min Jin Lee offers us the chance to see this entire culture, up close, personal and far more sympathetically. The book focuses on the emotional and ...

USA Today

"Savor every course in this literary banquet… But when the novel ends, readers will long for another 560 pages so they can extend their love affair with Casey and Min Jin Lee, her amazingly talented.”

Out This Week

Other notable releases: fiction—Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee; The Overlook, Michael Connelly; nonfiction—God in My Corner: A Spiritual ...

– Columbus Dispatch

Dailycandy.com

Which is the tough lesson for Casey Han, prodigal daughter and broker-than-brokester protagonist in Min Jin Lee’s debut novel, Free Food for ...

Livingreadgirl

My thanks to Min Jin Lee,for giving me her time and thoughts for this interview. Free Food For Millionaires will be available everywhere and if you would like to know more about Min Jin and her work,please visit her official website by ...

People Magazine

– People Magazine

USA Today

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee may be the right book at the right time. It’s a first novel that, through sheer coincidence, opens a door onto the ...

USA Today

As a capable young woman, Casey Han felt compelled to choose respectability and success. But it was glamour and insight that she craved. ...

Washington Post

When a 22-year-old Princeton grad takes too long to find a job, her dad sends her packing. ...

Springing Forward: Fiction/First Novels & Collections

The daughter of Korean immigrants navigates the Manhattan world of haves and have-nots. 

– Publishers Weekly