LW29: Ocean Vuong

In this episode, we sit down with writer, professor, and photographer Ocean Vuong. Born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Hartford, Connecticut in a working class family of nail salon and factory laborers, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a BA in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He subsequently received his MFA in Poetry from NYU.

 

Join us as we talk about everything from the lives we live after we walk away from the wreckage of our past to the heightened awareness of the world that comes after you finish writing a book. We each consider our own relationship with regret and we attempt to see what is left in our writing once the author has been erased.