Ocean Vuong became a literary star when his first novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” turned into an international bestseller in 2019. The author just launched his much-awaited second ...

The language Vuong, who made his mark as a poet, made a previous venture into prose with 2019’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” (No one has better titles than Vuong.) A novel more in name than ...

Vuong’s second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness, ” was released Tuesday. The Northampton resident appeared on “CBS Mornings” with Winfrey to discuss its selection for her book club.

We’re a long way from the Popeye’s on 14th Street, the place where Vuong often wrote when he was a struggling writer in the early 2010s. “They had a corner seat and it was always open,” he ...

In the opening chapter of Ocean Vuong’s new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, we are led deep into the mysterious landscapes of East Gladness, Conn. Here, Vuong intimates, layers of decaying human ...

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

In Ocean Vuong’s melancholy ‘Emperor of Gladness,’ happiness is elusive and the American Dream out of reach Ocean Vuong’s poetic second novel centers on immigrants struggling to get by.

Odd Couple Roommates, Bonded by Pills and Precarity A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.

HII reported revenue decline of 2.5 percent to $2.7 billion in the first quarter of 2025 compared to $2.8 billion during the same period in 2024. The company said Thursday that the slightly lower ...

HII announced that the Virginia -class shipbuilding team, which includes the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, has been awarded a contract modification in support of ...

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Vuong has now got the job permanently as head of unscripted at NBC with the title EVP, Unscripted Programming, NBC. It comes as the network is gearing up to launch its next big entertainment ...