The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. This is the story of Hai, a Vietnamese immigrant to America where he lives in the ...

Author Ocean Vuong answered the phone and the last person he expected to be on the other end of the line was Oprah Winfrey.

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, ...

A hugely acclaimed poet, author of the award-winning memoir, Boy Friends, and now debut novelist Michael Pedersen is a ...

The book Vuong is trying to make sense of is The Emperor of Gladness, which, to be fair to its author, is sprawling. It ...

Oprah Winfrey selected "The Emperor of Gladness" by New York Times best-selling author Ocean Vuong as her latest book club pick. Watch the author, Ocean Vuong, read an excerpt from his novel that ...

In his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong lovingly describes characters who worked together in a Connecticut ...

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Author and poet Ocean Vuong discusses being Oprah’s book club pick of the month and the inspiration behind his new book "The ...

It’s official, Oprah Winfrey has announced her May book club pick ! On May 13, the former talk show host went to CBS Mornings ...

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 ...