Notes from the Reading Life: Tim Gunn and Min Jin Lee, Ep. 230

By NYPL Staff
September 9, 2018
Tim Gunn and Min Jin Lee at Jefferson Market Library

Tim Gunn is the Emmy Award-winning former producer of Project Runway, where for 16 seasons he mentored contestants with charm and care. But when he isn’t busy making it work, chances are he has his nose in a book. In a live conversation series presented in collaboration with the National Book Foundation, Gunn spoke about some of the most powerful books in his life, the reads that have stayed with him since his early teens. His conversation partner: fellow avid reader—and best-selling novelist— Min Jin Lee, whose most recent book, Pachinko, was a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2017.”

Tim Gunn's favorite books mentioned in the conversation:

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

Gunn is also the author of serval books which you can check out here.

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