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Min Jin Lee Gives the Algorithm a Ten-Year Publishing Schedule
· New York time
Min Jin Lee says each novel takes her a decade to write. Her new book, American Hagwon, explores the promise and perils of Western education for Koreans; her 2017 novel Pachinko was a National Book Award finalist. In an economy that prizes constant posting, her timetable gives a very different answer to the question of when the next work will arrive. An algorithm might ask for another update tomorrow. Lee's novels have evidently arranged a much longer production meeting.
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