Linh oi, I've seen this on CNN two or three times, only once in its entirety, but it seems to be getting some good play. Nice piece, with interesting people featured, a few of them good friends who make Ha Noi such a special place. It was only in the second viewing that I caught the brief scene with you and me at Tadioto discussing matters of great profundity, I'm sure, with Duc -- me with my arms flailing around as if I were trying to convince you of whatever I was saying. I don't remember that there was a camera in the room.
Born in Vietnam in 1963, I came to the US in 1975, and have also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of a non-fiction book, Postcards from the End of America (2017), two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), six of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007), Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009) and A Mere Rica (2017), and a novel, Love Like Hate (2010). I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). My writing has been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.
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Hi Linh,
Very cool.
Rudy
Linh oi, I've seen this on CNN two or three times, only once in its entirety, but it seems to be getting some good play. Nice piece, with interesting people featured, a few of them good friends who make Ha Noi such a special place. It was only in the second viewing that I caught the brief scene with you and me at Tadioto discussing matters of great profundity, I'm sure, with Duc -- me with my arms flailing around as if I were trying to convince you of whatever I was saying. I don't remember that there was a camera in the room.
Hi Chuck,
The cameraman was on the sidewalk and filming us through the window. My time in Hanoi was too brief. I hope to return soon.
Linh
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