All written by Thuc’s brain, never AI
IN PROGRESS / AVAILABLE
alternate title: Rebirth by a Thousand Cuts
2026: Currently at 270 pages and 70,000 words +
Author is a a Gen X American and a Turn of the Century New Yorker
How 9/11 split my life and the US in half
Eat Pray Love in reverse:
An Asian-diaspora person who goes in-country in America from abroad – essays about topics from being a child refugee of the post Vietnam War Era to being an observer at large scale movements like Occupy and No Dapl, commentary about being an eye-witness at 9/11 while living on the edge of Chinatown and the Lower East Side— and filming the burning Twin Towers and people on the street from a fire-escape (never seen before footage that was recently digitized), life in the American South versus major cities like London, NYC and Los Angeles and more
60 page- Book proposal with sample chapters and real blurbs completed
Book deck samples:
Ideas on the mind (It’s just really fun to make decks):
2025
Proud to be part of the The Pasticheur, a Literary Review journal from people at Vassar, Amherst, Dickinson College & others, with my non-fiction essay called MEETING BELLEW.
It’s one of the dozen+ in my personal project currently titled TRAVEL LIKE A REFUGEE—
2024
See if you can spot a photo of Thuc in Elizabeth Ai’s book about Vietnamese New Wave out from Angel City Press
Check out this flip through! – Number 1 New Release – sold out on some sites – amazing
2023-24
Thuc is the Keynote Speaker for the Tulane University First Year Experience Reading Program (for Fall 2023 & for Spring 2024), sponsored by Kylene and Brad Beers. The lecture’s title is a line from Nguyen’s work in progress collection of essays called TRAVEL LIKE A REFUGEE—
Pretty cool, as Michelle Zauner (Crying in Hmart) followed Thuc’s season opening event with her own chat with students about her book following thereafter
2022
Great to be photographed for a book by Sally as an East Village, NYC kid turn East LA gal
Part of this book out March-2022 (new pub date! darn supply chain) from
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (not Dunder Mifflin- there’s a difference)
Actually – out from Harper Collins (who acquired HMH)
Update: This book is now a New York Times Bestseller!
Be sure to check out the “I will not love you long time” lady on top of Amanda Nguyen … wonder who that is … looks familiar …
Asian Stuff:
While we’re at it – guess who’s next to Aquaman, also with the wavy non-straight hair—
in this collage made by Cal Endow!
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