before I started writing. It didn’t turn out very well. I was, like, I need another ritual. I read that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day. I was really inspired, because I think her prose is so sturdy. I was, like, O.K., I’m going to read the Bible. I would read a chapter, and then I’d do my work. Gradually, I started to read the chapter and I realized that there were things I didn’t understand, and some of it was dreadfully boring.
The title of your book “Free Food for Millionaires” comes from a scene in which investment bankers receive free lunch after closing a deal. Your opening line in “Pachinko”—your thesis statement—is “History has failed us, but no matter.” What did you mean by that? I mean, truly, can you think of any other subject that people could care less about? But I thought, It means so much to me.
They’re very similar. Very often, it comes from economic insecurity, anxiety, and the inability to compete, right? So, as globalization and economic forces [drive] changes around the world, you often have to find scapegoats. Throughout history, we see this. In Europe during the twentieth century, Jews were persecuted and scapegoated. I think in colonialism we have to figure out, how do you justify that these people can be treated this way? And very often it’s economics plus hatred. It’s both.
I’m interested in the formation of modern Koreans. I’m trying to figure out, what does that modern Korean care about more than anything? In all of my travels, I’ve been asking people, and the thing that really comes up over and over again is education. So I was thinking, Well, that’s kind of a big topic, right? I’ve never met a Korean anywhere—like a Korean from Brazil or Canada—who doesn’t have very strong feelings about education, so I’m writing about that.
The book is about young white Americans who hail from outside of élite Northeast circles—Gatsby, from North Dakota; Nick, from Minnesota; Daisy, from Kentucky; Tom, from Illinois; and George and Myrtle, from Queens—and through Fitzgerald’s geographic choices he was able to discuss distinct geographic cultures of white Americans. Recognizing the specificity of Fitzgerald’s choices is a way to read and appraise his work fairly.
“Free Food for Millionaires” was in development with Netflix, but I know that doesn’t mean it’s going to get made. What is the status of the show? Over the past few years, you have become one of the most visible spokespeople for Asian Americans, someone who’s looked to when we experience traumatic moments, like the spa shootings in Atlanta, or when Michelle Go was shoved in front of a subway train and killed, or, more recently, when Christina Yuna Lee was murdered in her apartment in Chinatown.
We live in an age where the CCP, Voodoo Koreans, and the dupes tweet lies a billion times or more. They began to lie after a generation of witnesses had died.
minjinlee11 'Apple announced that it would turn “Pachinko” into a television drama, and that Lee would serve as an executive producer...But, for reasons that Lee declined to disclose to me, she is no longer involved in the production of the show.' RuthMBuchanan, this is what i feared...
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minjinlee11 For me the thing that matters most is learning to love and be loved which Min embodies with everything she writes. As her teacher bell hooks said: 'Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed.'
minjinlee11 I dabbled in this article a bit just to find why does she say she's quoted as saying. Turns out she's talking about that the very all-around competence the 'model minorities' are perceived to have often drives them spreading themselves too thin, making some of them incompetent!
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