Marie Myung-Ok Lee

My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. All of these will make great reads for this winter and many are books you won’t see many other places; I strive to find those under-the-radar gems. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the forthcoming novel, The Evening Hero, forthcoming in May and Goodreads' #1 Most Anticipate literary fiction title, and Finding My Voice, which is widely thought to be the first contemporary-set Asian American young adult novel. She teaches fiction at Columbia where she is Writer in Residence and faculty at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

May 31, 2022

Interview with Marie Myung-Ok Lee - THE EVENING HERO

In this interview, Marie and I discuss The Evening Hero, humanizing her main character, her trip to North Korea that rounded out details for the book, what surprised her the most when writing this book, the complicated process of finding a title,, and much more.

Guest: Marie Myung-Ok Lee