An essay on my complicated travel issues appears in the April 2009 TRAVEL + LEISURE (Southeast Asia). It was surprisingly funny to brood on my curious anxieties about leaving the house. In the process of writing this essay, I figured out that I love the learning and seeing bits of travel even more than my consuming fear of the unknown.
My T+L editors were Chris Kucway, Paul Ehrlich & Matt Leppard.
A profile of my work appeared in the Post – the English-language paper of Hong Kong. It was written by Melinda Harper. I recently visited Hong Kong for its Man Hong Kong Literary Festival, and it was a beautiful place.
A profile of my work appeared on March 8, 2009 in the Yonhap News—South Korea’s official news agency. I was interviewed by the journalist Shin Hae-in of Yonhap.
The interview begins…
“She was once cast in with that sea of would-be authors, struggling to find a publisher for her debut novel: a lengthy, dense work full of complex characters that might intimidate even the most voracious reader.Now, people call her the “21st century Jane Austen,” and Lee Min-jin has become one of the few Korean-American writers to have their book translated into the language of their parents.”
M.J.L.
Click here to read the article.
This version of the Yonhap story ran in the Joongang Ilbo—the Korean partner paper of the International Herald Tribune: Joongang Ilbo.
I recently spoke to the enthusiastic Classes of 2009 and 2010 at ASIJ about being a writer and visited Ms. Karen Noll’s AP English seminars. The seminar students were reading Mrs. Dalloway (I read this in my early 30s), and they were an impressive group. Later, I spoke with two lower school students about how writers make a living. I hope I wasn’t too sobering an influence. The best part was spending the day with my favorite librarian Lin Hayakawa and cataloguer extraordinaire Kirby Yoshii who have been friends since they were girls in Connecticut and now work together in a library in Tokyo.
M.J.L.
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