Min Jin Lee
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I love Mr. Green.
Mr. Martin Green.
Give him a shout out.
He said that you have to read through an author.
So you couldn't just read one book by a writer.
You had to read all of them.
And he had written too many.
So I think I chose four or five novels that he had written.
And after I read four or five novels, I became very...
critical of the world because I think Sinclair Lewis was so critical of the world.
And he was tackling very big social problems.
And I remember thinking, oh, I would like to be a big thinker like a person like Sinclair Lewis.
I didn't know very much about him.
And back then we didn't have search engines.
So whatever I learned, you had to go to the library and look at the index of periodicals and go look at the encyclopedias.
And I loved what he was saying about
trying to prevent provincialism.
We couldn't be narrow thinkers.
We had to be bigger thinkers.
We had to be against fascism.