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Cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · 2017
Mentioned 12 times across 4 podcasts · 2023–2026
Mention timeline12 mentions
20232026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Novelist Min Jin Lee on the promise and perils of Western education
Fresh Air · Nov 2026
“best known for the novel Pachinko”
Jordan Firstman captures the highs and lows of being a ‘Club Kid’
Fresh Air · Nov 2026
“Novelist Min Jin Lee's last book Pachinko sold more than five million copies”
Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’
Fresh Air · Oct 2026
“Pachenko, the second in the series, was a finalist for the National Book Award”
Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
The New Yorker Radio Hour · Sep 2026
“And a decade went by before we read Pachenko, a historical epic and truly a phenomenon that was translated into some 35 languages”
Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
Fresh Air · Sep 2026
“Pachinko, the second in the series, was a finalist for the National Book Award”
The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Mar 2026
“I love historical fiction ... Pachinko, that tells the history of”
2025
Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2025
“Pachenko by Uh then Jen Lee”
How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2025
“Other books that I think that I've read recently are have all been fictions, so”
2024
Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2024
“from a fiction perspective, um I think Pachinco by Min Jin Lee is incredibly beautiful and powerful”
2023
The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Dec 2023
“Pachinko is one of the best fictional books I've read in a while”
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The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
“I have a friend, Min Jin Lee, who's the author of Pachinco, which is an incredible book”
#671: Bobby Hundreds — Building an Iconic Streetwear Brand, Making $7 Million in 40 Minutes, The Power of Garfield, Why Korean Entertainment is Taking Over the World, Maintaining the Mystery, The Fickleness of Fortune, and Developing “Nunchi”
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2023
“If you read Pachinko. By Minjin Lee. This is supposed to be an amazing book”