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AI Summary
- Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel The Emperor of Gladness, which follows a 19-year-old struggling with addiction who bonds with an 82-year-old widow with dementia
- The Connecticut-set novel explores themes of memory, survival, and unexpected human connection
- Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka shares her work finding humor in immigrant family dysfunction and her new standup special Father about her father's reappearance
Guests on This Episode
AO
Atsuko Okatsuka
12 podcast appearances
OV
Ocean Vuong
6 podcast appearances