When I wrote my 1st academic book, I was in great admiration of the dense footnotes of the scholars I was reading, and my book replicated that. When I wrote my 2nd academic book, I threw that all out and used endnotes purely as citations. Anything worthy of digression went into the text.

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While you wait for this conversation between Ocean and me, check out our last one. Linked down below.

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You'll get a chance to ask Ocean some questions, too, if you join us live. The interview will be available on Apple Podcasts. Link in below to register.

If he was in the military, he’d ask for a Purple Heart.

and the struggle to confront the otherness within oneself.

I'll be talking about TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY and all its issues--literature's power to save and to destroy us, how that sense of writing's power emerged from the refugee, war, and colonized experiences of my family and myself, the challenges of writing and reading as an other,

At the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, this Sunday Nov 2 at 2PM.

I'll be in conversation with a stellar cast of Vietnamese American authors about this landmark novel: André Dao, all the way from Australia, and all the way from New York, Cat Dang and Cathy Linh Che (finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry this year!).

He wrote the very first Vietnamese American novel, No Passenger on the River, and now Kaya Press has the honor of re-publishing his second novel, Blue Dragon, White Tiger.

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