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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
7 podcast appearances
OV
Ocean Vuong
4 podcast appearances