Marie Myung-Ok Lee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Partial The Evening Hero tour list! 1st up hybrid launch event w @koreasociety @koreasocietyart @aaww in conversation with the excellent @Frances_H_Cha whose novel If I had Your Face is unsettling and beautiful https://t.co/ppk41r57hj

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"Danyel Smith, the first Black editor of Billboard magazine, about her book “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop”; Jamie Ford on his New York Times bestseller “The Many Daughters of Afong May”; and “The Evening Hero” author Marie Myung-Ok Lee.

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love to see these literary dudes wracking their brain and book catalogues: "let me pick the one novel by a woman, dunno, like George Eliot, that still makes me look cool"

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read this thread, don't forget Erin was the curator/writer for the Double Take column + I *so* looked forward to her thematic groupings and wide-angle takes -- loss for us New Yorker readers https://t.co/IFWeUb1Bqq

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Contrats to @kirstin_chen for blasting onto NYT bestseller list right out of the gate! Counterfeit = entertaining perfect summer read but also w weightier themes of identity, family, and is ingeniously constructed. My reco for @OprahDaily #booktwitter https://t.co/HYuKPwYRvo

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I love this girl and wonder if she's read Stop Saving the Planet by @JennyJJPrice ~ !!! https://t.co/o9lu4aNJN6

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I think one of my favorite moments in this new Judy Blume documentary is her being pestered by Pat Buchanan about Deenie and she finally just asks him on camera why he's so obsessed with masturbation also a good reminder these "culture wars" are always with s, just waiting

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Hey GOP it would not be unChristian to listen to His Holiness The Dalai Lama once in a while "Lasting happiness comes primarily from finding peace of mind and peace of mind does not fall from the sky. We need to make concerted efforts to be kind to each other."

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seems like another odd Onion headline, but it's real go @MargaretAtwood https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/margaret-atwood-releases-an-unburnable-edition-of-the-handmaids-tale-to-support-freedom-of-expression.html

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in climate change, racism, history - oh and before he could talk we also read Afterparties + Mavis Gallant's Paris Stories, which I was unsure of (like did he even know was Paris was?) but he reports was also a favorite. SO it's like READ because you never know. Poor guy has