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Jen Sookfong Lee

Co - Host at Can't Lit

Mostly an author, an occasional podcaster, often an editor, kind of an adequate mother. Out now: SUPERFAN.

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  • 1 month ago | chatelaine.com | Maureen Halushak |Jen Sookfong Lee

    I married young, then had a baby, and then got divorced before anyone else I knew had even considered it. Afterward, I dated wildly and indiscriminately, and had a few nice boyfriends and one very bad one. I leaned on my friends, most of whom tried to find me handsome men in bars or wanted me to date their cute coworker because they had always wanted to but were too shy and too married. During these years I was always writing, or trying to write, or complaining about writing.

  • Dec 6, 2024 | mcnallyrobinson.com | Jen Sookfong Lee

    Superfan Trade paperback $24.95Reader Reward Price: $22.46 Biography & Autobiography / WomenBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian AmericanSocial Science / Popular CultureFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.

  • Aug 19, 2023 | independentpublisher.com | Jen Sookfong Lee |David Leach |Anais Mohr

    Indie Groundbreaking Publisher ECW Press Curiously Compelling Books When York University grad student Jack David founded the critical journal, Essays on Canadian Writing, in 1974, he saw potential in the publication. After four years of publishing essays, interviews, bibliographies, and reviews of Canadian authors with other grad students, David launched ECW Press with the help of his partner Robert Lecker, taking the name from the publication that started it all.

  • May 19, 2023 | reviewcanada.ca | Jen Sookfong Lee

  • Apr 26, 2023 | thebcreview.ca | Jen Sookfong Lee

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Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee @JenSookfongLee
12 Nov 24

Ugh will I ever leave this place? Anyway find me in the sky, use my regular name, love you, still grieving what we used to have here.

Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee @JenSookfongLee
8 Nov 24

I get why people are posting inspirational memes right now but truly let me wallow in the darkness and despair for a hot half second.

Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee @JenSookfongLee
7 Nov 24

Now more than ever the books matter. The challenging ones, the ones that make you uncomfortable, the uplifting ones, the ones that tell you a story you have never heard before. Books matter. Art matters. Don't let them take those away from us.