Ocean Vuong in Podcasts
personVietnamese American poet and writer known for his poetry and novels.
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Fresh Air
Ocean Vuong Sees Himself More As A Teacher Than A Writer
And then later that night, we spoke again in front of an audience of nearly a thousand at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in partnership with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Here's our conversation. Ocean Fong, welcome back to Fresh Air. Thank you so much, Tanya.
Fresh Air
Ocean Vuong Sees Himself More As A Teacher Than A Writer
This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. And today, a conversation with writer and poet Ocean Vuong. His new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is an exploration of working class life and the quiet joys and devastations of caregiving and survival. It's set in the fictional post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, and follows a 19-year-old Vietnamese American named Hai.