What it's about: Vuong's book, published by Penguin Press, is scheduled for an April 5, 2022 release. The U.K. edition, published by British publisher Jonathan Cape, is set for release two days ...

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 ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Writer Ocean Vuong's family is originally from Vietnam, resettling in Hartford, Conn., as refugees in 1990 when he was 2 years old. Vuong is now a writer, a poet and teaches at UMass Amherst. Back in ...

Students, faculty and members of the Amherst community piled into the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center on Thursday night to hear from local writer and professor Ocean Vuong as he read from ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ocean Vuong’s first act of writing, as he describes it, was an act of preservation.