Min Jin Lee

I didn't major in English, that is.

I don't have an MFA.

I don't have a PhD in literature.

All of it, I had to figure it out by myself.

And I'm glad I did now.

But back then, I think I was just, I had a very DIY art career.

The interesting thing about this omniscient voice is I think when you write this way, you have to ask yourself about this sort of fictional universe that you're creating.

I think a lot of your work is in its core very much about morals and choice.

I think you're crafting sort of a glacier through the choices that we face, whether we're adhering to a moral just God or an immoral God.

Yeah.

I am creating this world in which there's meaning that I am arguing deeply against a postmodern world.

I am arguing against the sense that there is no meaning, that things can just take place in terms of a Darwinian cycle.

I'm fighting deeply against that.

And in order to share that philosophy, I create these worlds in which there's a purpose and there's a good purpose.

Does your art have to reflect the sort of moral justice that you believe in?

I think so without it being propaganda.

Like I don't ever want it to be irrational.

Like I don't really believe in these sort of Hollywood endings.

I think that in a way when we get these Hollywood endings very often, now we have two kinds of Hollywood endings.

One is super happy and everything is saccharine and the other one is the evil guy actually has to have sympathy.