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Saigoneer Trigger When it comes to the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States, everyone knows about California’s huge community. Some may be familiar with other communities in Houston or the Washington D.C. area, but you rarely hear about Vietnamese in New Orleans. This group, which numbers around 15,000 people, is the focal point of Things We Lost to the Water, the debut novel from Eric Nguyen, the editor-in-chief of online literary portal  It tells the multi-generational story of a Vietnamese family who flees southern Vietnam at the end of the war and arrives in New Orleans under spo...

Nước — the Vietnamese word for country and water — permeates Eric Nguyen's haunting debut. Signifying both a place of origin and the means by which a boat refugee departs from such place of origin, Things We Lost to the Water poignantly explores all the ways in which Vietnamese refugees are affected by country and water — in sum, by dislocation. Told from multiple perspectives and spanning 27 years, from 1978 to 2005, Things We Lost to the Water gracefully manages to be both panoramic and specific, allegorical and literal. Most of the story takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, w...

Saigoneer Trigger Things We Lost to the Water, joins us today. Things We Lost to the Water tells the story of a family who escapes Vietnam after the war and ends up settling in New Orleans, spanning a time period from the late 1970s to the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. We discussed why he set the story in New Orleans, why the theme of water is so important to the book, what he wants readers to take away from it, his work at DiaCritics, and much more. Listen to this episode below, or subscribe to the Saigoneer Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast pla...

Event description Digital reading of poetry, fiction, and essays from Boston Review’s annual literary issue, ‘Ancestors,’ with ASL interpreting About this event Boston Review's annual Arts in Society issue, Ancestors, join us for a digital reading from contributors, featuring poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays. ASL interpreting will be provided by Pro Bono ASL, and texts will be available for reading along. Hosted by Boston Review Arts Editor Adam McGee and Contributing Arts Editor Ivelisse Rodriguez. Tickets are free, but please consider selecting the option for a ticket w...

Argentina, the country that produced Jorge Luis Borges, has an impressively rich seam of weird writers. Authors such as Samanta Schweblin (see Little Eyes) and Agustina Bazterrica (Tender Is the Flesh