Episode: Ep498: 21st Century Books Special Edition: Min Jin Lee on 'Pachinko'

Ep498: 21st Century Books Special Edition: Min Jin Lee on 'Pachinko' cover

Ep498: 21st Century Books Special Edition: Min Jin Lee on 'Pachinko'

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Published at: 7/29/2024

Author: The New York Times

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As part of its recent "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, Min Jin Lee joins host Gilbert Cruz to discuss her novel, as well as the book she's read the most times — George Eliot's "Middlemarch." “I’m willing to say it’s the best English language novel, period. Without question,” Lee says. “George Eliot is probably the smartest girl in the room ever as a novelist. She really was a great thinker, a great logician, a great empathizer and also a great psychologist. She was all of those things. And she was also political. She understood so many aspects of the human mind and the way we interact with each other. And then above all, I think she has a great heart.”

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