Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/24/helen-on-eighty-sixth-street">Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street</a>,” 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: “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/153872202X/">Free Food for Millionaires</a>;” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455563927/">Pachinko</a>;” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, in 2017, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in 2018; and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538752034/">American Hagwon</a>,” which was <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/testing-fiction-min-jin-lee">excerpted</a> in The New Yorker and will be published in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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