Organizer: New York Public Library

Type/Location: Hybrid / New York, NY

Description:

The features editor at The Verge satirizes American xenophobia, political dysfunction, and our tech-culture industrial complex.

In his second novel, Mỹ Documents, Kevin Nguyen follows four Vietnamese cousins whose lives are upended after a terrorist attack incites a government crackdown that targets their community through mass internment of Vietnamese-American citizens. Nguyen relies on the history of Japanese internment, the Vietnam War, and more recent immigrant detention to imagine a not-entirely-implausible near American future. As the cousins confront isolation, ambition, and the fight to survive, their intertwined journeys offer a powerful meditation on racism, family, and resilience.

Nguyen discusses his novel with writer Chris Gayomali.

About the Speakers:

Kevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves. He is the features editor at The Verge and was previously a senior editor at GQ. He lives in Brooklyn.

Chris Gayomali is a writer and editor based in New York. He's the deputy editor at SSENSE and a former articles editor at GQ. He writes the health and wellness newsletter HEAVIES.

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