Tochi Onyebuchi's amazing essay collection, out now on my imprint, is NPR's book of the day!!!! www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...

Delicious dinner, inspiring conversation, and Korean American power ✨ With the great @minjinlee.bsky.social & Chef Edward Lee in Seoul.

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

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.”

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.

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

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...

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...

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

“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.

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...

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. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Min Jin Lee giving her speech as the 2025 distinguished alumn at the One Story Mag literary debutante ball! 💫 @minjinlee.bsky.social @hannahtinti.bsky.social @onestorymag.bsky.social

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

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. buff.ly/DuBkCC5

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...

This is bleak reading

52 years.

Full video of the launch event for Strangers in the Land is now online! Watch the hilarious, thoughtful, and perceptive @minjinlee.bsky.social and I in conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqL...

If you haven’t already pre-ordered your copy of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, we’re working on copy edits and the table of contents ALONE will have you shooketh. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This week on VIBE CHECK, a conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren. In particular, as one of her constituents, I asked what would she say to people here outraged and terrified about ICE kidnappings in Somerville and people being detained/deported at Logan.

Final stop in this crazy, nine-cities-in-nine-days sprint across the country and back for the launch of “Strangers in the Land!” Please come out Boston! www.americanancestors.org/events/micha...

Buttigieg: Like I love A1 steak sauce, but A1 steak sauce is not one of the most important things confronting humanity right now. Artificial intelligence is. And somebody who doesn't understand that probably should not be leading an important federal agency.

We, too, received an email from the NEA on Friday. Like so many others, our award for 2025 was terminated. So to all of you who donate or subscribe, or have recently bought an issue or a tote or a T-shirt, thank you. In the times ahead, we will no doubt be needing each other more than ever.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Very American Roots of Trumpism. With historian Steven Hahn. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...

Easter 2025. Wishing you peace, faith, and renewal for you and your family.

Thrilled to see Donna Tartt, Colson Whitehead, Junot Díaz, and @minjinlee.bsky.social on this list from the LA Times!✨ www.latimes.com/entertainmen... @latimes.com @littlebrown.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @grandcentralpub.bsky.social

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China. With @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/1twk... youtu.be/UqBa0hBAQBA?...

Earlier this week, we celebrated 100 years of The Great Gatsby. Thank you @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez for an insightful discussion and Dylan Baker for a wonderful performance.

Honored to be on this list with so many writers I admire whose books I love. Many thanks to the editors of @latimes.com Book Review

We're so excited for all our authors on this Kirkus Reviews list! Congrats to Julian Barnes, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Valeria Luiselli, @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social, Donna Tartt, Ocean Vuong, and @colsonwhitehead.com 🤩🍾🥂 www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

Make sure you have your tickets for our centennial celebration of The Great Gatsby. @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage, and Dylan Baker will perform an excerpt from the novel. Join us! bit.ly/4bH094Y

One Story. Literary Debutantes. May 16.

Honored and grateful to be included in Kirkus Review’s “The Best Books of the 21st Century.”

On Monday, 4/14, @symphonyspace.bsky.social invites you to celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby with authors and admirers Jennifer Egan, Mira Jacob, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez. RSVP below and use code “Gatsby” at checkout for discounted livestream tickets.

I will miss you for always, my darling Gwen-chan. asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Ob...

A Queen, a King, and Lady Danbury.

Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y

This sat on my bedside table for years, eventually it met my eyes: beautifully written saga of Empire, migration, racism and resilience. #pachinko by @minjinlee.bsky.social

Here's the book tour schedule as it currently stands. Launch event is on 4/29 at the Museum of Chinese in America with @minjinlee.bsky.social, and then I'm off on a cross-country sprint. More details on individual events on my tour page! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2264...

A teenager explains why he shouldn’t have to write homework essays anymore. Is there some way for adults to force teens to still do homework? Or to convince them they should want to? open.spotify.com/episode/492n...

A new conversation of a 100 year old book. With Ernesto, Jenny, Mira, and Wesley. Tickets at @symphonyspace.bsky.social

Honored to share four iconic American women in fiction in @newyorker.com Meet Carol, Marjorie, Selina, and Haesu.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.