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EPISODE · Sep 1, 2026 · 1H 4M

Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

from The New Yorker: Fiction · host The New Yorker

Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” 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;” “Pachinko;” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, in 2017, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in 2018; and “American Hagwon,” which was excerpted in The New Yorker and will be published in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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