Marie Lee’s new book The Evening Hero recently got some buzz on Good Morning America. Last week, Good Morning America selected The Evening Hero as a buzz pick for the Good Morning America book club. Good Morning America flashed The Evening Hero on its Times Square jumbotron for tourists and readers worldwide as they walked […]
Marie Lee’s latest novel, The Evening Hero continues to pick up accolades from various publications since it’s debut a few short weeks ago. Latest on the list is the mention by the magazine, Vanity Fair, which lists Lee’s book, The Evening Hero as one of its reading recommendations for the month of June. Vanity Fair […]
Marie Lee has published more than 6 novels and this latest one shows new facets of the author’s writing. Hailed by Oprah’s Book Club, with an excerpt on the site, Marie’s novel, The Evening Hero, puts the reader directly into the experiences of Dr. Yunman Kwak, A Korean immigrant doctor who thought he was living […]
The Evening Hero is being met with some glowing reviews. The book is about a Korean immigrant Dr. Yungman Kwak and his disillusionment with the American Dream. The Star-Tribune calls the Evening Hero a ‘Sweeping Novel’ and states that Lee follows her protagonist with ‘comic flair.’ Dr. Yungman Kwak is at one time at the […]
The Evening Hero, which releases May 24th, has made it onto Oprah’s list at number 11 as one of the top books to welcome the spring reading season.
A woman has told how she got her young son a cannabis license despite his doctor’s reluctance, making him the youngest in the US to have one. Read the full article here When Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s son Jason was three years old, he was diagnosed with severe autism. The novelist tried every conventional treatment to […]
Read the full article on THE MILLIONS At about the time, as a child, I learned my parents could die at any minute (and so could I, but that was beside the point), I became obsessed with time, especially since I learned it passes. And that there were ways to spend it, save it, hoard […]
The name of the remake of ‘Train to Busan’ has been changed to ‘Last Train to New York,’ which has sparked outrage. The American adaptation of Yeon Sang-Korean ho’s apocalyptic zombie thriller Train to Busan has supposedly been given a new title, which has enraged fans of the original film. According to a rumor published […]
By Michael Seidlinger | Oct 06, 2021, Publishers Weekly. Read the full article here The Asian American Writers Workshop is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of digital events and a three-month fundraising campaign. “It’s a lot of different pieces and that’s intentional,” said Jafreen Uddin, executive director. “Retrospectives are critical for taking stock of where […]
Read the full article by By Martha Vickery in Korean Quarterly The experience of being the only Korean, particularly the only Korean in a high school, is one that many Korean adoptee teens and many second-generation Korean American teens can relate to. It is partly because of author and native Minnesotan Marie Myong-Ok Lee’s description of […]