Writing Sex: Eric Nguyen
Jonathan Alexander interviews Eric Nguyen about his novel, "Things We Lost to the Water," about an immigrant Vietnamese family in New Orleans.
By Jonathan AlexanderOctober 9, 2022
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WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.
Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS.org. He lives in Washington, DC. Things We Lost to the Water is his first novel.
HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
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Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. His latest book, Damage: Meditations on Queer Visual Art, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.