Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club is a buzzy new novel from a poet. Here's why she chose "The Emperor of Gladness" ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers ...

Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese refugee who grew up in Connecticut, set his latest novel in the state, penning a poetic tale about ...

Oprah Winfrey revealed "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong as her latest book club selection on "CBS Mornings" on May 13 ...

The author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is back with his second novel, the expansive, surprisingly humorous The Emperor of Gladness. He talks to GQ about celebrity, public perception, defying ...

Where Vuong’s 2019 debut, ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’, often felt overwrought and too writerly, his latest is firmly ...

In the opening chapter of Ocean Vuong’s new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, we are led deep into the mysterious landscapes of ...

Vuong recounts immigrant life and the love, labor and loneliness that living on the fringes of American society often entails ...

Ocean Vuong’s longtime partner is a former lawyer he met during a brief eight-week stint at business school. Learn all about ...

Ocean Vuong’s magnificent and melancholy second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” is both ode and reproach. It pays tribute to the human ability to act with kindness toward others even when ...

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.