Theater video tags: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong on War, Sexuality, and Asian American Identity

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“I would sneak out of recess, stay in the library to listen to tapes of famous speeches, and one of them was Martin Luther King,” recounts Ocean Vuong about his childhood in this interview with Michel Martin for Amanpour and Company. “You could hear the static when he was giving the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, and I thought...who is this man talking about dreams in a snowstorm?” Vuong was awarded the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Fiction & Poetry Prize for his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019).

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Poetry
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Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
2019
interview
Christiane Amanpour
Amanpour and Company
2020

Summer Beach Reads

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On BRIC TV’s 112BK, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, presents her summer reading recommendations including Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019), Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Hogarth, 2019), Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Knopf, 2018), and Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).

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Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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Greenlight Bookstore
BRIC TV
summer reading
Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
2019
Namwali Serpell
The Old Drift
Hogarth
Esi Edugyan
Washington Black
Knopf
Hugh Ryan
When Brooklyn Was Queer
St. Martin's Press

Summer Reading Recommendations

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In this PBS NewsHour video, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the Washington Post’s Carlos Lozada highlight their favorite books for summer reading, which include Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019), Jill Ciment’s The Body in Question (Pantheon, 2019), and José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2018).

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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
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summer reading
2019
Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
Jill Ciment
The Body in Question
Pantheon
José Olivarez
Citizen Illegal
Haymarket Books
PBS NewsHour

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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“It was an attempt to see if language can really be a bridge, as it is often aspired to be, and ultimately that it could fail.” In this video, Ocean Vuong speaks about the letter he wrote to his illiterate mother that inspired his debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019). A profile of Vuong by Rigoberto González appears in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Fiction
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Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
2019
July/August 2019
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