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

For Anne Winters, that moment happened in 1983 in Seldovia, where she was attending a Fourth of July celebration. She had arrived in Alaska 15 years earlier when her husband was stationed at Fort ...

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Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers.

Meet a lonely boy who dreams of having a pet dog, learn life lessons from two girls taking online dares to dangerous extremes ...

(Grand Central Publishing via AP) British biologist Sir David Attenborough will celebrate his 99th birthday two days after ...

Ocean Vuong’s second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, deftly portrays drug-ravaged America, but it’s overladen by its sentimental prose Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

A depressed Vietnamese American teenager becomes the unlikely caretaker for an elderly woman with dementia in Vuong’s second novel. 12 min listen For the best audio experience, scan the code ...

Where before there was only smooth ocean floor, Evie observes how microbial life found ... human and planetary drama in Playground is summarized by James Carse’s 1986 book Finite and Infinite Games.

Based on the author's personal experience, A Drop in the Ocean is a gritty, humanizing portrait of living with mental illness. (From Arsenal Pulp Press) ...

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