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- The Kids’ Corner Revisited & A Conversation with Alan Trinh, Viet Book Fest Program Manager with Growing Up NguyenMay 4, 2026(Read official article at https://www.growingupnguyen.com/post/the-kids-corner-revisited) Growing up, my parents would regularly take my ...
Breaking Bread: Julie Mai Trần on Food, Memory, and Meaning in Vietnamese American LifeApril 15, 2026In your cookbook, you share that Mom’s Kitchen was your favorite “restaurant”, despite all that you had available growing up in Orange ...
Between Languages and Histories: Thuý Đinh on Criticism, Translation, and Diasporic Vietnamese LiteratureApril 9, 2026What is your writing process like when working on essays or reviews as a literary critic? Are there certain works that you gravitate toward ...
