Media
*Listen every Wednesday to Jen Sookfong Lee's Westcoast Words column on CBC Radio One's All Points West with Jo-Ann Roberts and On the Coast with Stephen Quinn. Airs at 5:20pm throughout BC and at 5:50pm in the Lower Mainland.
March 6, 2010
To read us is to know us!
Listen to a special Canada Reads event about what Canadian books best represent us to the world
With
Sheryl MacKay, Simi Sara and Jen Sookfong Lee
Between 8:00 and 9:00am, CBC Radio One in British Columbia
March 1, 2010
"Past panelist Jen Sookfong Lee on recommending books she loves not wisely but too well"
Read Jen Sookfong Lee's blog post on Canada Reads 2010
February 13, 2010
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee's first column on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers
January 20, 2010
"Julie chats with Canada Reads 2009 panelist Jen Sookfong Lee about The Jade
Peony and how it shaped her writing career"
CBC Book Club interview with Jen Sookfong Lee
October 24 and 31, 2009
Listen to the CBC Studio One Book Club featuring Wade Davis
Hosted by Sheryl MacKay and Jen Sookfong Lee
Between 8:00am and 9:00am on CBC Radio One throughout BC
June 20 and 27, 2009
Listen to the CBC Studio One Book Club featuring David Sedaris
Hosted by Sheryl MacKay and Jen Sookfong Lee
Between 8:00am and 9:00am on CBC Radio One throughout BC
June 1, 2009
"A Writer and Nothing Else"
Jen Sookfong Lee on the writerly identity
Event, 38.1, Spring/Summer 2009
May 25, 2009
"But where are you really from?"
Jen Sookfong Lee on place, identity and belonging
Schema Magazine
May 10, 2009
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee co-host a special Asian Heritage Month themed episode of North by Northwest
6:00am to 9:00am on CBC Radio One in British Columbia
April 2, 2009
"Wayson Choy's Chinatown memories inspire"
Jen Sookfong Lee featured on the cover of The Georgia Straight
March 9, 2009
"Now we three are six"
SPiN profiled in Spring 2009 issue of BC Bookworld
March 2 to 6, 2009
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee defend Fruit by Brian Francis on Canada Reads 2009
11:30am and 7:30pm on CBC Radio One and Sirius 137
March 5, 2009
"It list: Things I'm loving"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in The Province
March 1, 2009
Listen to the first ever Canada Reads Teen Book Club on North by Northwest
Hosted by Jen Sookfong Lee and Brendan McLeod
Featuring Stephanie Browning, Yam Cooper and Jessica Wallin
February 25, 2009
"On Writing"
Jen Sookfong Lee writes about memoir-inspired fiction
The Writers' Trust of Canada Newsletter, Winter 2008-09
February 24, 2009
"Raising gems, together"
SPiN writes The Tuesday Essay in Globe Books
February 1, 2009
"What do BC people Like to do on their Sundays?"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in The Province
October 4 and 11, 2008
Listen to the CBC Studio One Book Club featuring Margaret Visser's The Gift of Thanks
Hosted by Sheryl MacKay and Jen Sookfong Lee
Between 8:00am and 9:00am on CBC Radio One throughout BC
September 27, 2008
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers
3:00pm on CBC Radio One, 6:00am and 1:00pm on Sirius 137, or online
Podcast available at www.cbc.ca/podcasting
September 1, 2008
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed at Editorial Ass
July 6, 2008
"You can best 'Serve the People!' by ticking off the propaganda bureau"
The End of East reviewed in The San Diego Union-Tribune
June 26, 2008
"Top 10 Novels Every Woman Should Read"
June 22, 2008
The End of East reviewed in The Baltimore Sun
June 7, 2008
"The End of East promising first novel"
Review in the Northwest Asian Weekly
May 26, 2008
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed at Reading Group Gold
May 17 and 24, 2008
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee co-hosting the CBC's Studio One Book Club, featuring Padma Viswanathan
8:00am, CBC Radio One
May 23, 2008
The End of East reviewed in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 30, 2008
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed in New York's Singtao newspaper
April 16, 2008
Jen Sookfong Lee's home office featured at Writers' Rooms, Vancouver International Writers Festival
April 2, 2008
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee on a CBC Words at Large podcast
March 1, 2008
The End of East reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
February 25, 2008
The End of East reviewed in Publishers Weekly
February 8, 2008
"Big family fosters big stories"
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed in Edmonton Journal
January 14, 2008
The End of East included on Vancouver Magazine's annual Best of the City list
January 3, 2008
Jen Sookfong Lee featured in Ming Pao
January 2, 2008
"Susan G. Cole's Top 10 Books"
The End of East included on NOW Toronto's list of 2007's best books
December 8, 2007
"They're making a list"
Jen Sookfong Lee and others revealed their book gift ideas
November 21, 2007
The End of East named as one of 2007's Covers of the Year by Quill & Quire
Congratulations to designer Kelly Hill!
October 19, 2007
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee's archived chat with Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada
October 14, 2007
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed in Ming Pao
October 13, 2007
"Writing Vancouver"
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed in The Vancouver Sun
June 26, 2007
The End of East selected for Whistler Reads!
June 9, 2007
The spin women are writing pals--for life
SPiN profiled in Weekend Review by Cheri Hanson
The Vancouver Sun
June 1, 2007
"Stepping outside the bamboo lines"
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed in The Tyee
May 19 and 26, 2007
Listen to Jen Sookfong Lee's archived guest appearance on the CBC Studio One Bookclub
May 17, 2007
"Taking it outside"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in 24 Hours
May 6, 2007
"A stunning fiction debut"
The End of East reviewed in The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
April 22, 2007
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed on Channel M News
April 19, 2007
"Jen Sookfong Lee"
Profile in The Georgia Straight
April 19, 2007
"East side story"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in the Arts section of The Westender
April 16, 2007
"Book a family's tale"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in The Toronto Star
April 7, 2007
"A daughter's journey toward understanding"
The End of East reviewed in The National Post
April 2, 2007
Jen Sookfong Lee interviewed on Global Television's Noon News Hour
March 29, 2007
"Chinese Choice of the Day"
Interview with Jen Sookfong Lee by Radio Canada International
(Mandarin)
Click on the big triangle and choose March 29
March 25, 2007
"Spare elegance: slim debut novel packs a punch"
The End of East reviewed and Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in The Calgary Herald
March 25, 2007
"Three generations in a city 'not quite dream, not quite day'"
The End of East reviewed in The Toronto Star
March 24, 2007
"Leaving home isn't easy"
The End of East reviewed in The Montreal Gazette
March 24, 2007
"Beginning at the end"
The End of East reviewed in The Vancouver Sun
March 23, 2007
"The End of East is just her start"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in 7 section of The Globe and Mail
March 22, 2007
"End of East chronicles immigrants' gamble"
The End of East reviewed in The Georgia Straight
March 22, 2007
"Vivid Vancouver"
The End of East reviewed in NOW Magazine
March 17, 2007
"Uprooted from Vancouver"
The End of East reviewed in The Globe and Mail
March 10, 2007
Listen to the archived conversation of SPiN talking with Sheryl MacKay on North by Northwest at CBC Radio One's archive, www.cbc.ca/nxnw
January 27, 2007
"Prose springs eternal"
The End of East featured in books spring preview
The Vancouver Sun
January 12, 2007
"New Face is End of East"
Review of The End of East on BookLounge.ca
September 2, 2006
"Confessions of a Writer"
SPiN profiled in "Musings" by Gloria Chang
The Richmond Review
August 19, 2006
"The Books that Mattered Most"
Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in Weekend Review by Cheri Hanson
The Vancouver Sun
May 27, 2006
"The New Writing Groups: More Writing, Less Merlot"
SPiN and Jen Sookfong Lee profiled in Weekend Review by Cheri Hanson
The Vancouver Sun
Spring 2005
I am a Writer
Schema Magazine
Jen Sookfong Lee discusses what being a writer means to her mother
June 19-26, 2003
Summer Inspiration for Literary Aspiration
The Georgia Straight
SPiN profiled in article on writing groups in the Lower Mainland
*Requests for interviews or appearances can be made by contacting Nicola Makoway at Random House of Canada at  or 416-957-1538. |
