Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

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Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020, in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York, but no one guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable.

Most stunning is how presciently, exquisitely Ocean speaks to the world we have come to inhabit— its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life.

“I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night — we can live. And we will.”

Ocean Vuong is the author of a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and two collections of poetry, Time Is a Mother and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award. He was a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

This episode last aired on May 3, 2023.

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Hôm nay, cô thấy con xuất hiện trên ti vi trong chương trình văn hóa của Thụy Điển và rất ấn tượng.Chúc mừng chàng trai Việt thành đạt ở xứ sở cờ hoa!

natalilumiere
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one of the best interviews I have ever heard. the power of language.

BarbVaughan-okvo
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What a beautiful talk. Thank you. May we have the courage to be tender and the strength to be vulnerable.

ShaeZamm
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Brilliant and human. One of the best podcast interviews I´ve ever heard.

JoanaSaahirah
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One of the most beautiful interviews I've heard - thank you

samantharae
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ctbarry music (sorry for the spam) I really enjoy your novels they are so relatable

ctbarry
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Listen closely, children! Tiny Tim is about to give a speech; let us attend to his precious words lest he perish!

lilbyte
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Yes, truly - let us invent a time machine to transport us to the moment that the Vietnam War broke out so that we may prevent it and keep Ocean Vuong from being born. Imagine, centering yourself in such a horrible conflict! Yikes. Not a very Buddhist approach, my dude!

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