#HA THANH VIET

[mydailyfashionworld]

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[heavenlyyshecomes]

hi my reader friends lithub has a new syllabi section that has some great (u guessed it!) syllabi from much beloved writers like ocean vuong and ross gay here's the full list that i have already added half of to my tbr:

ekphrastic poetry with victoria chang (featuring works of john ashbery, joy harjo, paul tran)

the literature of obsession with julia may jonas (obsession as transformation, destruction, catharsis and form)

place, space and landscape with alexandra kleeman (featuring didion, okorafor and hernan diaz)

lyric research with ross gay (books that combine research with an "I" like nelson's bluets or christle's the crying book)

hybrid poetry with ocean vuong (traditions, innovations and possibilities featuring bhanu kapil, rimbaud, clifton)

multigenre experiments in form with paul lisicky (for writing that explores connections between genres)

reading about writers with peter ho davies (books that teach the craft and give writing advice, think 'the outline' trilogy)

speculative women with lina maria ferreira cabeza-vanegas (a look at speculative works by women writers like jemisin, butler, k le guin)

writers and the world with viet thanh nguyen (rankine, baldwin, and coates)

sports and contemporary writing with sam lipsyte (exactly what it says on the tin)

#obsession and space sound soo good #victoria chang #ocean vuong #ross gay #viet thanh nguyen #peter ho davies #paul lisicky #alexandra kleeman #book recs #mine #ref #ref: mine #the hits

[probablyasocialecologist]

The backlash is in full swing. People who speak out for Palestine, for Palestinians, for Gaza are being punished simply for using their voices to advocate against genocide and for the preservation of life. Many of the high-profile examples of people being punished for their speech involve absurdly banal statements. Some folks didn’t even mention Israel by name. The CEO of Web Summit has resigned after tremendous backlash over the comment, “War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.” It would be comical if the implications weren’t so disastrous. Forced out for saying war crimes should always be called out. This obviously correct statement should’ve received no backlash at all, and instead cost this man his job. And yet, as we’ll get into here, the response to such a mundane statement hints at Israel and Zionism’s immense fear over public opinion turning, and on an even greater scale exposes the vulnerability of Western hegemony in this moment. Paddy Cosgrave, the Irish entrepreneur and CEO who stepped down at Web Summit, is not alone. Authors, workers, and politicians who speak out against Israel’s actions in any way are being censured and forced out of their jobs. The famed 92nd Street Y in New York City canceled the talk of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen for signing an open letter condemning Israel's "indiscriminate violence" against Palestinians in Gaza. The editor-in-chief of eLife, a scientific magazine, told the world he is being replaced for sharing a piece from The Onion that called out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians. There is again a comic tragedy to someone firing an editor for sharing a headline from a satirical magazine that reads, “Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas” and not realizing how they are proving the very point they hope to suppress. In short, by suppressing, firing, and attacking those who uplift the humanity of Palestinians and condemn war crimes, powerful people are making it clearer than ever that they are not in fact on the side of justice. Even more plainly, when they condemn Hamas as barbaric again and again, but then go after people who oppose crimes against humanity and say that thousands of innocent people in Gaza should not be slaughtered, they expose themselves as barbaric and depraved. I hesitate to even use the language of barbarism, as implying the absence of civilization has over centuries become synonymous with dehumanization. But as Israel runs ads in Times Square that say “Be Human. Stand for Israel” and relentlessly bombs Gaza, killing thousands, it becomes hard to ignore how nearly every move made both by the state of Israel and many Zionists has the opposite of its intended impact.

#palestine #israel #gaza #censorship #hasbara

[garadinervi]

A Reading for the Edward Said Libraries in Gaza, with Mosab Abu Toha & Friends, Brookline Booksmith, live streaming on YouTube, January 6, 2024, 12PM ET

«Brookline Booksmith invites you, with writer and library founder Mosab Abu Toha (Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear), to a virtual reading in support of the Edward Said Libraries in Gaza. Readers are planned to include Mosab Abu Toha with Kaveh Akbar, Rabih Alameddine, Ammiel Alcalay, Hala Alyan, Peter Balakian, Fatima Bhutto, Leila Farsakh, Nick Flynn, Ru Freeman, Carolyn Forché, Damian Gorman, Fanny Howe, Ha Jin, Canisia Lubrin, Askold Melnyczuk, Eileen Myles, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Shuchi Saraswat, and Lloyd Schwartz.»

Support the Edward Said Public Libraries in Palestine Three branches of the Edward Said Public Library (ESPL) are now open in Palestine—two in Gaza and one in Silwan, East Jerusalem. The libraries currently house more than 5,000 books in Arabic and English, regularly hold workshops for writers and teachers, conduct English language classes, art and music education, literacy activities, and much more. – The Middle East Children’s Alliance

#poetry #reading #library #edward said public library #edward said public libraries #mosab abu toha #brookline booksmith #middle east children's alliance #2020s

[kp777]

By Jessica Corbett

Common Dreams

April 15, 2024

The journalist says Zeteo will feature "hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis" in op-eds, podcasts, and streaming shows.

After a few weeks of "soft launch" mode, journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday officially debuted his new media platform, Zeteo, and declared that "this is not a one-man band."

The former MSNBC and Peacock host—whose show was canceled in November and wrapped up in January, after his incisive criticism of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip—revealed nine of the contributors he has lined up so far, calling them "some of the biggest, boldest, and best names from media, activism, entertainment, and beyond."

They are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, comedian and podcaster W. Kamau Bell, Palestinian Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu, former CNBC and CNN correspondent John Harwood, foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal, author Naomi Klein, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, actor and activist Cynthia Nixon, and Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

"The tough interviews and knowledgeable analysis are all coming back, along with a global cast of contributors," Klein said on social media Monday. "I was honored when Mehdi asked me to be one of them, along with Rula Jebreal and Greta Thunberg and many others yet announced."

"Mehdi and I will be having a regular conversation called 'Unshocked,'" noted Klein, who authored The Shock Doctrine.

Hasan—who has also produced content for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and The Intercept—has saidZeteo will feature "hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis" in a variety of forms, from op-eds and podcasts to streaming shows, beginning with "Mehdi Unfiltered."

"To keep Zeteo's journalism independent and free of advertiser and corporate influence," Hasan explained ahead of the formal launch, "and to allow us to continue investing in the future, we have to rely on our individual paid subscribers."

#zeteo #medhi hasan #progressive journalism #progressive politics

[mariacallous]

The first frame of The Sympathizer reminds us that what is known in the United States as the “Vietnam War,” the Vietnamese refer to as the “American War.” When something as basic as what to call the catastrophe that killed and uprooted millions of people is in such fundamental dispute, it’s clear that nothing about this is simple.

Dichotomies and seeing things from both sides are at the heart of this series, an adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel. Our hero, the child of a French father and Vietnamese mother, known only as the Captain (Hoa Xuande), spins this yarn as a confession in a North Vietnamese reeducation camp shortly after the end of the war. He was working, he claims, as a deep-cover mole for the Communists with the secret police in Saigon, where he was assigned to a somewhat buffoonish General (Toan Le). Though eager to celebrate the liberation of the south, the Captain’s handler orders him to join the General and his coterie when they flee to America. He was educated in the United States, understands (maybe loves?) the culture, and has an established rapport with the General’s CIA connection. His job is to monitor the situation there and report back.

So how does he end up captured by the North Vietnamese? Well, this is complicated, and the route to get there wickedly lampoons the military, academia, Hollywood, and, perhaps a bit more painfully, the mindset of war refugees incapable of adjusting to new surroundings. The Sympathizer is about tragedy, but, like Catch-22 or MASH, can also be called a comedy. I guess it’s all where your sympathies lie.

One of the bigger gags is the casting, with Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. hamming it up in several makeup-heavy roles. (This is not an explicit nod to the Vietnam War film spoof Tropic Thunder, but that history adds some extra spice to the stew.) We first meet him as Claude, the gruff CIA man who helped groom the Captain when he was educated in America. (When, specifically, he decided to align with the Communists is unclear, though the real-life spy that The Sympathizer is very loosely based on already considered himself a mole at that young age.) Claude later assumes false identities, just because there’s nothing this story loves more than complications.

Some of Downey’s other roles include a condescending professor of Oriental studies (swishing around in a kimono and demanding his Japanese-American assistant take more pride in her culture); a right-wing congressman (“Napalm” Ned Godwin) who grunts like Clint Eastwood and whose maniacal hatred of Communists helps him overcome his racism, thus aligning him with the General and having an anti-Castro Cuban wife; and an egocentric film director working on an Apocalypse Now-like Vietnam picture, the portrayal of which is a little unfair to Francis Ford Coppola. (Sure, he was and is dedicated to his vision as an artist, but in a mostly benevolent way, not like the snot portrayed in The Sympathizer.)

Mirroring the Captain is left-wing journalist Sonny (Alan Trong), who stayed in America after college. The Captain secretly envies his ability to be open with his Viet Cong sympathies but scorns him for not “earning it” in the homeland during the war. Naturally, they are both sleeping with the same woman (Sandra Oh).

The other key characters who double as big honkin’ metaphors are Bon (Fred Nguyen Khan), which, yes, is French for “good,” and Man (Duy Nguyen), which is English for, uh, “man.” At age 14, they formed a three-way blood bond, but the big secret is that the Captain and Man are loyal to the Communists—indeed, Man is his handler, with whom he corresponds using invisible ink and complex codes. Bon, however, is a defiant South Vietnamese who escapes to America with the Captain and the General, but whose wife and child are killed as they race to make the last flight out. This tense sequence almost one-ups the real-life chaos of the fall of Saigon.

There’s more to the tableaux of characters, especially in the Los Angeles refugee community, and while the series keeps the story moving, a great deal of the clever writing that made the book such a success translates over nicely. There are examples at every turn: The professor teaches Oriental studies at a thinly veiled Occidental College (zing!), and his book of highly influential political theory is attributed to one Richard Hedd. (I’ll let you work that one out on your own.)

That book, Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction, is used by the Captain and Man as the foundation of their cipher, but it also contains the line eerily similar to a notorious statement by Gen. William Westmoreland: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as that of the Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient, and as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it, life is not important.”

That preposterous sentiment is rebuked by the psychologically convalescing refugees—some of whom have turned to alcoholism, defacing property with images of the “Saigon execution” photo, or, as mentioned in one dark moment, “beating their wives just to feel like men.” As the series heads into its final third, the General (backed by the CIA) crews up for a quixotic attempt at a Bay of Pigs-like invasion via Thailand, which, of course, quickly falls apart.

The Captain isn’t just a witness to the scheme; he’s an active participant in two cold-blooded murders. (He’s still a likable guy; Hoa Xuande gives an incredible performance.) The moments of violence, however, are shot through a bleakly funny lens, in the style of the Coen Brothers. One includes a doddering half-deaf granny in the same frame as a life-or-death struggle.

The first three episodes are directed by the series’ co-creator, Park Chan-wook, the South Korean auteur of Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and the recent John le Carré adaptation The Little Drummer Girl. His episodes all contain a noticeable cinematic sparkle, making clever use of match cuts that weave the complex narrative in simplifying ways. The remainder of the series is directed by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, The Two Popes) and British director Marc Munden (The Secret Garden).

All seven episodes look terrific, from the period automobiles and Budweiser cans to the Vietnamese “hamlet” in both the Captain’s memory and the Hollywood film production where the Captain is acting as an authenticity consultant, blending art and life with helicopter blades. There’s also a keen deployment of fresh music from the era—not a hint of Creedence Clearwater Revival!—but instead tunes like “Dynomite!” by Bazuka (a funky number with a mention of armaments) and fiery free jazz by Ornette Coleman. It all builds to our hero’s tortuous showdown with his homeland, his identity, and himself. Unless you’ve read the book, there’s really no way to predict the ending, and yet once you see it you realize that it’s perfect.

America’s counterculture, instigated significantly by the Vietnam War (but also civil rights and the pill), is just about the most heavily covered topic in movies and television, but there are so few projects from the Vietnamese perspective. Of course, as with any group, there isn’t just one Vietnamese point of view. The Sympathizer, almost magically, is able to fit many in, even if it almost destroys everyone in its path. There hasn’t been a series this complex—and also so funny—in a very long time.

[kitchen-light]

Hello friends. Another online poetry reading hosted by Mosab Abu Toha: "A Reading for the Edward Said Libraries with Mosab Abu Toha & Friends". It will be held on January 6, 2024 at 12PM ET.

The line-up looks amazing: Mosab Abu Toha, Kaveh Akbar, Rabih Alameddine, Ammiel Alcalay, Hala Alyan, Peter Balakian, Fatima Bhutto, Leila Farsakh, Nick Flynn, Ru Freeman, Carolyn Forché, Damian Gorman, Jorie Graham, Fanny Howe, Ha Jin, Ilya Kaminsky, Askold Melnyczuk, Eileen Myles, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Shuchi Saraswat, and Lloyd Schwartz.

You can register here

#poetry #mosab abu toha #palestine

[rotzaprachim]

i'm so dissapointed in ny92's cancellation of the viet thanh nguyen event because i think he has just so, so much literary insight into things that relate not just to palestine but to israel and the historical and cultural realities of israelis and jews like he is VERY interested in cycles of violence, in imperialism, in land dispossession and how oppressed groups get turned against each other, i keep thinking about his work these days and how he's said he writes in order to be angry at all actors in the tragedy, to let no one including the asian-american diaspora off the hook

#his work challenges so many of the simplistic notions of easily understood violence and colonialism tbh #it's an interrogation and that's what we need rn

[notmorbid]

the sympathizer, pt. 2.

dialogue prompts from the sympathizer by viet thanh nguyen.

amnesia is american as apple pie.

i know you're disappointed, but it's for the best.

i think it's the right time for a beer. don't you?

what is more radical than forgiveness?

no one can make a guilty pleasure like the french.

we would all be in hell if we were convicted for our thoughts.

are you sure you want to know?

every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it.

vodka is good for honesty, especially on ice.

you don't plan on coming back, do you?

don't feel sorry for me.

hell's better than this shithole.

all anyone ever wants is to be recognized and remembered.

life's a suicide mission.

if something's worth dying for, you've got a reason to live.

wars never die. they just go to sleep.

what does marriage have to do with love?

i'm proud of you. i just want you to know that.

you can't change anything. not from the inside.

i don't give a damn about saving anybody, even myself.

besides sadness and sorrow, what's really heavy but weighs nothing at all? nihilism.

you're everything my mother would hate.

you know everything about everything, don't you?

the only ones not dying are the dead.

talent and destiny are apt to feud.

absolute honesty isn't always appreciated.

it's far better to be hated than ignored.

isn't that what education is all about? getting the student to say exactly what the teacher wants to hear?

am i really so horrible that you don't recognize me?

didn't i tell you not to come?

mama told me the bird always returns to its nest.

please don't be angry. i couldn't take it if you were angry at me, too.

human memory is short and time is long.

i warned you, didn't i?

i was saved, but for what?

if you know how to steal it, time is on your side.

'for your own good' can only mean something bad.

pain fades, but knowledge doesn't.

do you know where the money comes from?

we've been through so much, me and myself.

you look like hell.

#rp meme #askbox memes #askbox meme #rp memes #inbox meme #rp prompt #ask meme #thriller meme

[thosearentcrimes]

Read The Sympathizer, a novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, upon recommendation by an IRL friend. It's pretty good. The best non-spoiling summary I can give of it is that it is the story of a man who spends a very long time trying to understand dialectics and eventually succeeds. That is, he ends up understanding nothing.

In interviews the author says that the framing device of the book makes the book a conversation between two Vietnamese people, and he's proud of that. Well, yes, that's ostensibly what the framing device suggests, but it's also not remotely consistent with the actual content of the book. The problem is that the book is written for Americans (non-Vietnamese) and there's no escaping that. Writing a book for Americans as communication between two non-Americans requires a degree of trust for the audience that is not on display in this novel.

It's possible there was an earlier draft that was more consistent with the framing device. It feels like you can sometimes discern its ghost, trapped behind a wall of notes in red pen reading "unfamiliar context" "Americans won't get this joke" "needs more exposition" "explain the joke or people won't know it's funny" "readers are drooling imbeciles" "needs to be more didactic". Though perhaps the didacticism is down to the fact that the author is an academic?

In any case, all of this sadly detracts from what is at the bones quite a good spy story! I like the characterization of the main character, I like the portrayal of spycraft. I like the premise, despite my objections to the execution, and I like imagining the better book trapped under consideration for the expected audience. It also made my think about my grandfather, a man who died long before I was born. I can absolutely recommend this to anyone interested in a spy novel set during and after the Vietnam War.

There's a sequel. I'll read it, I'd love to know where it's going, but I have to admit I'm a bit concerned. The end of this novel was pretty rushed, it seemed unnecessary and unmotivated. The impression I got was that the author had run out of ideas. Hopefully the existence of a sequel indicates the he has come up with some new ones.

#book report #the sympathizer #viet thanh nguyen

[readingsquotes]

"Typically, journalism has a proclivity to overly rely upon the accounts of soldiers, military officers, and politicians in times of war—often of those who are doing the most killing. (Take for example the PBS NewsHour’s bizarre February story “Israeli soldier’s video diaries offer unique perspective on war in Gaza.”) This is a misdirection. As writer Viet Thanh Nguyen said in October,

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the ramifications of war are oftentimes very visible for soldiers, because when we think about wars, we generally think of wars, soldiers, battles, tanks and so on, but the fact of the matter is that wars usually kill more civilians than soldiers. And civilians bear enormous burdens, both of violence but also of ongoing trauma in the years afterwards.

Nguyen said this after a reading of his Vietnamese migration memoir A Man of Two Faces had been canceled by the 92nd Street Y, because he had signed an open letter in the London Review of Books to “demand an end to the violence and destruction in Palestine.” The media depiction of people in Gaza, which has no military and where tens of thousands of civilians  have been killed, is a particularly brutal example of civilian dehumanization by western media.

In the binaries determining whether journalists consider lives to be “grievable or ungrievable” as outlined by Judith Butler in Frames of War—or if reporters determine such lives are “worthy” and “unworthy” as designated by Edward Hermand and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent—mainstream American journalists and politicians have largely presented Palestinian deaths as both ungrievable and unworthy.

Deaths in Palestine are treated as numbers, if even that. In October, President Biden was asked about the thousands of civilian casualties, and he said he had “no confidence” and “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.”

A necessary intervention in this dehumanization of a people experiencing genocide is a project like the Martyrs of Gaza. With 142,000 followers on Twitter and 62,000 on Instagram, the social media endeavor memorializes, humanely and with compassion, Gazans killed during Israel’s assault—and will continue to do so, as long as the people running it in Gaza do not become martyrs themselves."

#palestine #free palestine #isreal #gaza #apartheid #genocide #colonization #american imperialism #martyrs of gaza

[mydailyfashionworld]

Ha Thanh Viet

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Overcoat;

Closure type: Button;

Sides pocket;

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Middle sleeve.

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Gevena Straight Collared Neck Cotton Silk Shirt (White)

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#black #dresses #jackets #ha thanh viet

[quotian]

They want their country back, dear Aunt, but they also yearn for recognition and remembrance from that country that no longer exists, from wives and children, from future descendants, from the men they used to be. If they die, call them fools. But if they do not fail, they are heroes and visionaries, whether alive or dead. Perhaps I shall return with them to our country, regardless of what the General has to say. the sympathizer - viet thanh nguyen

#the sympathizer #viet thanh nguyen

[areax]

erika! if you're still taking book asks: 1, 11, 21! 💌

book worms 📖🐛 ask game

1. Name the best book you’ve read so far this year.

I answered this already but I'll list another one, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. YES it is as good as advertised. YES it does deserve its classic status. Specifically I read the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, my edition of the book is the Bicentennial Vintage Classics edition which was released in 2021. It has footnotes that are really helpful for understanding the book's references and what is significant in Russian but untranslatable into English, such as when characters use the formal "you" (вы) vs informal "you" (ты). I'm not sure how faithful the translation itself is, as I don't know much Russian beyond like, a 5 year old's level, but it was a really good read and the footnotes help a lot!

11. Favorite historical fiction.

This is difficult because I don’t read a lot of historical fiction that doesn’t also have another element to it like sci-fi or fantasy, like “it’s set in the 1920s, but the protagonist has lightning powers” or something like that, or if part of the narrative is in the past, part is in the present, part is in the future. If I’m reading about the lives of people at a specific point in history, I like to read books that were written at or near that time, like reading Pride and Prejudice to learn more about 1800s England.

But I do like some! I think my favorite historical fiction book would be either The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco or The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. For a book set in the past with fantastical elements, I would say The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. For a book with a dual narrative of the past and future that includes fantastical elements in the latter, I really liked The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara.

21. The book(s) on your school reading list that you actually enjoyed.

The funny thing about me is that I enjoyed pretty much every book we read for school! It would be shorter for me to list the ones that I didn’t like (Bel Canto by Ann Patchett is the only one that I really hated), but some that stick out are All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I still have those on my bookshelf today.

#hot2go #answered #ty jules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <233

[msclaritea]

"...Key players have completely fumbled their responses. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, the stars of the series as well as two of its executive producers, have yet to publicly comment. Bogado and others posted the podcast clip on Twitter, only for it to be removed due to a copyright complaint ostensibly filed by Choe’s nonprofit.

Maybe in an earlier time, the relative scarcity of works like “Beef” would have silenced most of the critics — or at least caused them to keep their thoughts to themselves. If you’re always forced to be grateful for scraps, you’re especially vulnerable to being scammed.

But that’s not where we are today. These days, the Asian American media landscape is a land of milk and honey, fat with the success of “Crazy Rich Asians” in 2018 and the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” awards sweep this year. Hype is growing for the upcoming HBO adaptation of “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

So it behooves us all the more to pause and ask if separating this art from its artists is something that would truly benefit the “community” or something that would solely benefit Choe and his enablers, who cast him in a major production despite the highly public controversy over the podcast clip when it first came out almost a decade ago. They could have cast any of the many Asian American actors in that role but instead opted for someone whose entire media persona is based on a misogynist and racist reaction to the model minority myth..."

#David Choe #Steven Yuen #Alo Wong #Netflix #Beef #A24

[larrywilmore]

Viet Thanh Nguyen on refugees & immigrants

America has a distinct way of differentiating between refugees & immigrants. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen & I talk about how those perceptions affect people coming to America.

Listen to our full conversation on @spotify

#larry wilmore #black on the air #the ringer #spotify #podcast #refugees #immigrants #viet thanh nguyen