It was recently announced that Janice Y.K. Lee's latest book, "The Expatriates," is going to be made into an Amazon Prime TV series by Nicole Kidman. That sounded like a great reason to replay her 2016 interview on The Spine.

Reading, for Janice, was "like ice cream" in that she couldn't get enough. But reading was always her private pleasure: Because her parents read books in Korean, she still doesn't know what kinds of readers they are.