M Lin on The Memory Museum, Writing Across Worlds, and Finding Freedom in a Second Language

NüVoices

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M Lin on The Memory Museum, Writing Across Worlds, and Finding Freedom in a Second Language
Jun 24, 2026
NüVoices

This week, NüVoices podcast cohost Chenni Xu interviews M Lin, author of the recent short story debut, Memory Museum, out everywhere where books are sold. Chenni met M at her NY book tour stop at McNally Jackson Seaport where she read to a packed audience of friends, family, and new fans.


The Beijing-born, US-based writer joins NüVoices Chair Chenni Xu to discuss how distance (from home, from language, from certainty) became the engine of her fiction. They also get into writing characters whose lives look nothing like your own, what "daughter" and "mother" mean for Chinese women today, and writing techniques.