Min Jin Lee

Notable New Yorkers on the City’s Arts Scene, 25 Years Out

In the first piece from our Future of New York series, we asked a bunch of cultural smarties, including @shteyngart.bsky.social @minjinlee.bsky.social @mobrowne.bsky.social @sloanecrosley.bsky.social, to look ahead to 2050.

The University of Chicago is now hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor of fiction writing. apply.interfolio.com/174642

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Highlighting some of the genres specifically desired for this position.

Folks who write genre fiction take note!

“Desirable additional subspecialties include speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic narrative, experimental fiction, hybrid forms, and climate fiction.”

Thank you.

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: 'Pachinko' (Rerun) The Book Review · Episode

A return of my conversation with the great Gilbert Cruz of @nytimes.com on today’s NYTBR podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5o1E...

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Craft Seminar: How To Write An Essay Collection with Alexander Chee — The Shipman Agency 2 Sessions: Sundays, July 13 + 27 1:00-3:30 pm ET Alexander Chee Alexander Chee is the author of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, named most recently as one of...

I’ve been preparing for my upcoming How to Write an Essay Collection seminar class, and I’m honestly excited for this Sunday. The class meets in two sessions, is recorded if you’re unable to attend at the time for some reason, and has ASL interpreters. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

NYS Writers Institute announces New York State Author and New York State Poet The New York State Writers Institute proudly announces novelist Min Jin Lee has been named the new State Author and Kimiko Hahn the new State Poet honoring their extraordinary craft and deep roots in ...

PEN America congratulates New York's new State Author, former PEN America trustee @minjinlee.bsky.social and new State Poet, past PEN/Voelcker Award winner Kimiko Hahn, two exceptional writers whose contributions to literary culture cannot be overstated. www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/nys-wri...

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Am deeply honored to be named the New York State Author Laureate for 2025-2027. My congratulations to NYS Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn. My profound thanks to @nyswi.bsky.social and to the jury.

“We both took pleasure in being irrelevant and irreverent and unflappable.”

Today in TYR, Yiyun Li pays tribute to her friend, the late Edmund White.

@minjinlee.bsky.social Even ChatGPT gets it

Sometimes a Rose Is Just a Rose A conversation about gardening, loss, and the end of metaphor

“I’ve been on this crusade against metaphor for years,” Yiyun Li tells Manjula Martin in this conversation. “I think metaphors are not helpful when you are writing about things that are very hard to tackle.”

For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.

Craft Seminar: How To Write An Essay Collection with Alexander Chee — The Shipman Agency 2 Sessions: Sundays, July 13 + 27 1:00-3:30 pm ET Alexander Chee Alexander Chee is the author of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, named most recently as one of...

Returning with two online craft seminar classes this summer. The first meets on two Sundays in July, a look at several approaches to creating an essay collection, and includes suggested readings and writing prompts for essays, 3 per class. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

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Book Club: 30 (real) books to read this summer

Fake books are the least of our worries.... In an acid bath of ease, AI has dissolved the exercises used to teach middle and high school students to read closely and write effectively.
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Min Jin Lee giving her speech as the 2025 distinguished alumn at the One Story Mag literary debutante ball! 💫

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I have not written and will not be writing a novel called "Nightshade Market."
Thank you.

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Book cover with the title "Free Food for Millionaires". The cover images is a stack of hat boxes with a top hat on the top hat box.

You know that feeling when a book is over 550 pages? Well... Just started book "Free Food for Millionaires" by Min Jin Lee - I AM HOOKED.
The writing - chef level - each sentence seasoned perfectly with the zest of cultural friction and bold flavor of family. #booksky 💙📚@minjinlee.bsky.social

Dan Piepenbring reviews Yiyun Li’s memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow.

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Why a Massacre of Chinese Miners 140 Years Ago Still Matters On September 2, 1885, tragedy struck the coal-mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, when white coal workers brutally attacked and murdered Chinese immigrants brought in to work the mines.

Not often that you get to spend an hour talking about a story you worked on. Thanks to Radiowest on @kuer.org. radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowe...