Ocean Vuong, internationally acclaimed author and NYU Creative Writing Program Professor, reads from his latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Deborah Landau, Director, NYU Creative Writing Program.
About The Emperor of Gladness (Penguin Press, May 2025), the follow up to Ocean Vuong’s New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous:
Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
“Ocean Vuong is one of the country’s most esteemed poets and novelists.”—The New York Times
“It’s one of the best books I’ve ever, ever read.”—Oprah Winfrey
“Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time.”—The Guardian