{"id":81281,"date":"2025-12-26T04:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81281\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:39:13","slug":"pachinko-author-joins-nyc-mayors-inaugural-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81281\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pachinko’ author joins NYC mayor’s inaugural panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Min Min Jin Lee, author of the novel “Pachinko,” poses for photos ahead of a press conference at the Korea Press Center in Seoul on Aug. 8, 2022. (Newsis) <\/p>\n

Min Jin Lee, the Korean American author best known for the novel “Pachinko,” has been appointed to the inaugural committee of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, according to his transition team.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s mayoral transition office on Thursday released a list of 48 inaugural committee members, describing them as New Yorkers drawn from diverse fields and communities whose work reflects the city\u2019s cultural and civic life.<\/p>\n

The committee will help host and advise on events surrounding Mamdani\u2019s inauguration on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

Lee gained international recognition for “Pachinko,” a multigenerational novel tracing the lives of a Korean family in Japan amid discrimination, migration and displacement.<\/p>\n

The book became a global bestseller and was later adapted into a television drama, cementing Lee\u2019s reputation as a leading literary voice on diaspora, identity and inequality.<\/p>\n

The inaugural committee also includes actors Cynthia Nixon and John Turturro, comedian Kal Penn, novelist Colson Whitehead and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, 34, will become New York City\u2019s first Muslim mayor when he takes office.<\/p>\n

According to CBS News, he is scheduled to take a private oath of office at midnight on Jan. 1, administered by New York Attorney General Letitia James, followed by a public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall at 1 p.m. Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to administer the public oath.<\/p>\n

Public celebrations, including a block party near City Hall, are also planned for the day.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Post, Mamdani\u2019s transition committee has raised at least $3.7 million, far outpacing his predecessors\u2019 pre-inauguration fundraising, with more than half of donors coming from outside New York.<\/p>\n

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