Our twelfth episode of Cabana Chats is a throwback! In 2018, Resort founder Catherine LaSota chatted with the incredible writer Min Jin Lee, in Catherine's then-office on the campus of Columbia University. This episode features the recording of that conversation, in which Min Jin Lee compares the best writing projects to love affairs and talks about how parenthood irrevocably changes you. There is also a lot of discussion about prioritizing what is important, as well as advice for headache cures, and acknowledgement of the importance of understanding those who hate you. Chocolate is also consumed.
Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe IAS at Harvard, and NYFA. Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award, a New York Times Bestseller, and on over 75 best books of the year lists. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a national bestseller, and her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and many other places.
On July 10, 2018, Min Jin Lee had the unique honor of being a Double Jeopardy clue in the “Literary Types” category for $1200 on the game show Jeopardy: “Korean-born Min Jin Lee wrote a 2017 book with this Japanese pinball game as its title,” to which the contestant Becky answered correctly in the interrogative, “What is Pachinko?”
Find out more about Min Jin Lee here: https://www.minjinlee.com/
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Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota.
Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
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