⚡️NEW FLASHBACK EPISODE ⚡️

Episode 455. March 1, 2017.

Min Jin Lee (Min Jin Lee) on writing slowly, confidence, rejection, 19th century social novels, outlining, Big Frank, despondency, neurotic lawyering, cirrhosis, and mortality.

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I am excited to sign books at The Los Angeles Festival of Book in USC. If you are near by on Sunday, April 21, come and say hello at 3:30 pm at LA Libreria Booth #590.

Join us for an online reading & conversation in celebration of *Essential Queer Voices in U.S. Poetry* this Sunday (April 14th at 4pm EST). Proud to be included in this anthology! Green Linden Press Ellen Bass Lee Ann Roripaugh Charif Shanahan ➡️thepoetscorner.org/events/essenti…⬅️

Teaching a 2-hr seminar and generative craft class on Emily Dickinson, the dictionary, and riddles.

This Sunday, 3 pm EST over Zoom. ($33!)

mayacpopa.com/onlineclasses/…

I'm not at #Shax2024 this year, but my book, Latinx Shakespeares is open-access and accessible. Check it out, along with the online archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation, LatinxShakespeares.Org.
#Teatro #Shakespeare

Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Get ready for an afternoon full of #monsters , #myths , and #art with Xavier Garza + VINCENT VENTURA AND THE CASE OF THE DANCING DEVIL / VINCENT VENTURA Y LA MALDICIÓN DEL DIABLO BAILARÍN, during the San Antonio Book Festival!
Then, bring your pencils and colors to #draw your own beasts!

Presenting: WORK IN PROGRESS night! In association with our lovely pals HWA-ON come by and share your latest with a room of writers and supportive folks. Meet other authors and get a little feedback!

Sign up to attend through our website:
littleghostsbooks.com/events

'The Quiet American does not endorse the surgical malpractice of killing innocents, but neither does the Quiet American do much to oppose it.'

Read an excerpt of 'A Man Of Two Faces' by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen altaonline.com/books/nonficti…

It’s #FridayReads time! Today we’re a huge marketing team and boost all signals. RT this and let us know what to RT for you. I’m sharing this award-winning slice of darkness and grief sprinkled with mutilation cults, underground monsters, and violence.
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/031642…

**PRE-ORDER for 4/30!** Immensely grateful to these kind words about BITE BY BITE from Elizabeth Acevedo. Pre-orders help give books life— and I’ll even personalize it too!

Hey guys my book is being adapted for TV by Universal International Studios haha oh did I mention that I sold a book haha did I mention it was. Uh. Three books. To Tor. In a seven figure six house auction.

Anyway read the Deadline Hollywood article for deets.

deadline.com/2024/04/sublim…

Please read this. Fidel Martinez is at his best when writing about his family. A lovely tribute. Love you. Latinx Files: A eulogy for my father latimes.com/delos/newslett…

‘So it’s you. Here you are’: Salman Rushdie describes moment he was stabbed theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Teaching CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN makes me adjunct professor of Reanimation Studies, perhaps?

The official 2024 Conference Program is now available online! Please share widely latinxstudiesassociation.org/2024-conferenc…

I did a photo shoot in France with Sophie Bassouls, who has photographed James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Toni Morrison, Jorge Luis Borges, James Ellroy, Raymond Carver, Susan Sontag, Kazuo Ishiguro, José Saramago, Umberto Eco, and countless others!

My review of Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar, from Flatiron Books, is now up at NPR.
npr.org/2024/04/11/124…

If you missed Ken Jones interview me about my new novel, Chicano Frankenstein, on #Portland 's KBOO 📻, it's now available online. Many thanks to Ken, #KBOO , and my wonderful indie publisher, Forest Avenue Press! kboo.fm/media/120916-d… #writinglife #horror #scifi #Frankenstein #Chicano

There is nothing like being back at San Diego State, where I studied for 10 years and 3 degrees. With my OG mentor and friend Bill William Nericcio that 2nd photo is me by the financial aid office, the only way any of this was possible — feeling fortunate and grateful to be an educator