Ocean Vuong said he wrote the first draft of his bestselling novel by hand — and in a closet. It was the only quiet space in his home. “It was perfect. … I cleared out the closet. I put a lamp in ...
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Diversity Equity Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) Collection DSI "Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a ...
In a moving new narrative, Ocean Vuong redefines what it means to write an American novel. The follow-up to his first prose endeavor – the heralded 2019 novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” – “The ...
Today, the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong sits among an elite sliver of celebrated U.S. writers. His debut novel, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," won a bunch of awards in 2019. He got a MacArthur ...
Ocean Vuong is perhaps best-known for his 2019 novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and deeply intimate poetry collections such as Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and Time Is a Mother (2022). In ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country's most admired young writers. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she has chosen Vuong's “The ...