Life Beyond Your Four Walls: The Millions Interviews Jillian Medoff
"Once characters start talking, scenes start to take shape."
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From Cover to Cover: On the Pigeonholes of Publishing
Before the cover creation process had even begun for 'The Evening Hero,' I requested a Korean book designer.
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American Survival: The Millions Interviews Jung Yun
Growing up in an immigrant family, I was taught the value of hard work and pulling myself up by my bootstraps. But what happens when hard work isn’t enough?
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
At about the time, as a child, I learned my parents could die at any minute (and so could I, but that was beside the point), I became obsessed with time, especially since I learned it passes.
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Seeing the World More Clearly: The Millions Interviews Maggie Smith
In order to keep making poems, I have to tune out the static that comes from the outside world—both negative and positive noise. I need to be able to have a quiet, focused conversation with myself on the page.
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What the Literature About Contemporary Korean Women’s Lives Illuminates About Our Own
A quick survey suggests my experience is rather typical, how this hostile atmosphere begins when girls are still children, continues with everyday misogyny, and proceeds when the weaponized penis enters the workplace.
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A Project of Defiance: The Millions Interviews C Pam Zhang
As a woman of color, I take it as my task to let my imagination expand into the spaces of erasure.
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Apparently books about racism and immigration are seriously back in demand. This prompted me to take a dip back in the current pool to see what’s new.
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Dear Someone: On Asian-American Writers and Letters as Storytelling
Historically, the Asian-American story has been ignored, erased, overlooked. At its simplest, a Dear Someone letter demands to be read.
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Why We Need to Read the Literature of Incarceration
The U.S. holds five percent of the world’s population yet nearly 25 percent of incarcerated people. Here are five books that tell their overlooked stories.
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
What is the role of artist if not to reflect back society to the reader—even, and perhaps especially, if we aren't going to like what we see?
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We Need to Destroy the Blurbing Industrial Complex
In general, I will say that blurbs are a blight on the publishing industry, both for people seeking blurbs and the writers asked to blurb.
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Trump’s Got Mail: About Those Great Love Letters from Kim Jong Un
The letters to my father represented sorrow, hope, and, probably saddest of all, a willingness to suspend disbelief. They continued coming for years.
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Books and Mortar: Eso Won Books in Los Angeles
As water flows over rocks, so does knowledge flow through books. Books have knowledge and reading books gives you knowledge and power.
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What’s in an Author Name?
Friends and family call me Marie, and Koreans revert to Myung-Ok—but no one uses both. Marie Myung-Ok Lee then becomes the embodiment of my writing.
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Whose Beach? Our Beach: A Readers’ Guide to Shoreline Access
Just as no man is an island, no beach is totally "owned" by someone. Even the famous stars in Malibu, with their yards fronting the beach, can't yell, "Get off my beach-lawn"—although they've tried. Yes, part of that beach belongs to you, Joan Q. Public.
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