Vuong is so committed to his notion of transcendent pseudo-lyric prose that he doesn’t even tell us what animal he means us ...

As a poet, Ocean Vuong has won every prize going. Now here’s The Emperor of Gladness, his second novel. His first, On Earth ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” (Penguin Press) is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. New England ...

Ocean Vuong, Author, "The Emperor of Gladness": There's just something connected to the brain with the way the hand moved. Types drafts on a vintage typewriter. In an age of instant output ...

Ocean Vuong became a literary star when his first ... The author just launched his much-awaited second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” (out now from Penguin Press), which he’ll discuss ...

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

A few weeks before the publication of Ocean Vuong’s first novel ... The small-town world of The Emperor of Gladness will be familiar to Vuong’s readers. Hai has a tempestuous relationship with his ...

Now, with the release of his second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” Vuong raised a whole town from the realm of memory. The ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as he takes care of Grazina and works in a fast-casual restaurant to help support them. Told in moments, “The Emperor of Gladness” takes existentialism to a deeply ...