News
- Received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. An honor of a lifetime.
- Really gratifying starred review from Kirkus: "Smart, sexy, darkly funny, and enlightening stories from a master of the form."
- Quickie Q&A with Jon Winokur for AdviceToWriters.
- Marion Winik's review of the audio version of The Partition for Kirkus: "Cindy Kay and Greg Chun, the audiobook narrators of Lee’s lively, edgy, often erotic stories, bring authenticity and wry vocal shadings to a variety of complicated characters in a dazzling array of settings.…Lee skewers idiocy and cant everywhere he finds it, and he finds it just about everywhere."
- A conversation with Patrick Ryan on YouTube for One Story, hosted by Community Bookstore.
- Interview with Hopeton Hay on his Diverse Voices Book Review podcast.
- Marion Winik on "The Weekly Reader" on WYPR calls The Partition "smart, sexy, and darkly funny." Her review starts at 1:41.
- A little Q&A with Deborah Kalb.
- Interview with Matthew Schmidt for 1-Week Critique on YouTube about revising a story in The Partition.
- Q&A with Liam Callanan on YouTube for Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee.
- Very nice review of The Partition by Diana Y. Paul for New York Journal of Books.
- Elaine Hsieh Chou picks The Collective for this list of "18 Book Recommendations Celebrating AAPI Month" on The Cut.
- I list the "The Best First Novels by Now-Established Korean American Authors" for the new book recommendation site Shepherd.
- Weike Wang recommended The Partition for AAPI Month on the TODAY Show! Watch the video (starting at 1:39). And here's the accompanying article.
- Q&A with Rob Arnold on YouTube for Town Hall Seattle.
- Review of The Partition on Shelf Awareness.
- Becky Tuch has reprinted an old essay of mine called "Editors Do Not Hate You. Really" on Lit Mags News Roundup.
- Review, "Don Lee's Long War on Asian American Stereotypes," in The New York Times Book Review.
- Probably my favorite story in the new book, "Commis," is up on Narrative Magazine.
- A little Q&A about reading books on Shelf Awareness.
- Nate Brown did a fabulous job on this Q&A for Baltimore Fishbowl.
- Kate Tuttle profiles me and the book for The Boston Globe in her Story Behind the Book column. Thanks so much, Kate!
- An excerpt from "The Sanno," one of the stories in The Partition, is available on LitHub.
- A really nice, flattering review of The Partition by Zachary Houle.
- The title story, "The Partition," is up on the website Best of Korea. Thanks to Minsoo Kang and Patricia Lee Liu!
- Back in 2014, the actress Mary Stuart Materson did a live reading of a little story of mine, then called "A Preference for Native Tongue," for WORDTheatre. The story was reworked and retitled as "Years Later" and is included in The Partition. But a recording of the original story/performance is now available on WORDTheatre's podcast until the end of May 2022.
- Nice little review in Book Riot.
- Wonderful review in Booklist from the inimitable Terry Hong!
- Nice first prepub review in Publishers Weekly.
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The Partition will be released on April 26, 2022. Come to an event!