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Vu Tran

@roomwithavu

Author of the novel, Dragonfish. Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago.

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Reruns of two moving pieces on Literary Hub for #WorldRefugeeDay: Vu Tran Vu Tran on being a 4yo refugee lithub.com/vu-tran-the-un… and Inara Verzemnieks @inaraverz on her Latvian grandparents' travails getting into the US as "displaced persons" after WWII lithub.com/turning-away-r…

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Student gifts are always the best, but this one is too too cool. Next time you come to my place, please do not take the Tolstoy biography off the shelf. It contains my wisdom teeth, my… instagram.com/p/BlmuVD_lzsr/…

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Get all the #novelwriting feels at our #AWP19 panel - You've Got This: Finding and Sustaining Self-Reliance While Writing A Novel - w/ superstars @brandonlgtaylor Vu Tran Rebecca Makkai is No Longer on This Platform & IowaWritersWorkshop director Lan Samantha Chang! See you next year Portland. AWP

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Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 4th, for a fiction reading by our Writer-in-Residence, Vu Tran! The event is at 7pm in Bucknell Hall. Read more about Vu Tran and our Writer-in-Residence program here: ow.ly/PvRQ50jbDlD Vu Tran

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.Vu Tran's debut novel, DRAGONFISH, "will keep you reading, out of fear that if you stop, you will never truly surface” (Fresh Air). For a limited time, get the ebook for just $2.99. bookbub.com/books/dragonfi…

.<a href="/roomwithavu/">Vu Tran</a>'s debut novel, DRAGONFISH, "will keep you reading, out of fear that if you stop, you will never truly surface” (<a href="/nprfreshair/">Fresh Air</a>). For a limited time, get the ebook for just $2.99. 

bookbub.com/books/dragonfi…
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On historical fiction, "War and Peace and Nostalgia," by Vu Tran, is one of four criticism pieces in the Fall issue. Read it today online or in the print edition. vqronline.org/criticism/2018…

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"KILLING COMMENDATORE offers a portrait of a portrait painter who strives to find a person’s 'real self,' but what we ultimately see is the painter finding his own 'real self' through his art." From Vu Tran's new criticism piece on Haruki Murakami. vqronline.org/criticism/2019…

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New AAWW Radio podcast episode! Listen to Viet, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, Violet Kupersmith, Thanhha Lai & Vu Tran discuss ghost stories as a metaphor, and what Vietnamese diasporic literary community means to them. bit.ly/aawwradio

New AAWW Radio podcast episode! Listen to <a href="/viet_t_nguyen/">Viet</a>, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, <a href="/vmkupersmith/">Violet Kupersmith</a>, Thanhha Lai &amp; <a href="/roomwithavu/">Vu Tran</a> discuss ghost stories as a metaphor, and what Vietnamese diasporic literary community means to them. bit.ly/aawwradio
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"KILLING COMMENDATORE offers a portrait of a portrait painter who strives to find a person’s 'real self,' but what we ultimately see is the painter finding his own 'real self' through his art." From Vu Tran's new criticism piece on Haruki Murakami. vqronline.org/criticism/2019…

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“She drank the rest of her tea, set the mug on the table, and got up to unplug the Christmas tree lights, as though they’d finally become too festive for the conversation we were having.” Read “Origins” by Vu Tran in the new issue of Ploughshares pshr.us/2xVUyWe

“She drank the rest of her tea, set the mug on the table, and got up to unplug the Christmas tree lights, as though they’d finally become too festive for the conversation we were having.”

Read “Origins” by <a href="/roomwithavu/">Vu Tran</a> in the new issue of Ploughshares pshr.us/2xVUyWe
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Visit American Writers Museum's “My America: Immigrant & Refugee Writers Today,” multimedia exhibit and learn what it means to live in “liminal spaces” and what "I love you means in Farsi. Spoiler: It has to do with your liver. Vu Tran @fulmerford chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…

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What makes a character human, convincing, & unique? What does it actually mean to be any of those things? Sign up for Vu Tran’s prose craft class “What is Character?” 📒🤔 Saturday, 7/10. 3-6 PM ET. Open to writers of color. Scholarship available! kundiman.org/online-classes

What makes a character human, convincing, &amp; unique? What does it actually mean to be any of those things? Sign up for <a href="/roomwithavu/">Vu Tran</a>’s prose craft class “What is Character?” 📒🤔

Saturday, 7/10. 3-6 PM ET. Open to writers of color. Scholarship available!

kundiman.org/online-classes
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We wanna congratulate Vu Tran on winning an NEA award. Vu got his PhD thro UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute & based his great novel Dragonfish here in Vegas. arts.gov/sites/default/…

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We're taking #AWP2018 on its final ride. Saturday at 10:30. Tod Goldberg. Steph Post 𓅩. Vu Tran. And Stephen Jay Schwartz. Crime, fiction, crime fiction. Get up out of that pool of blood and take notes. awpwriter.org/awp_conference…