Monthly Archives: September 2010
Another reason to live in LA: "New Voices from Vietnam" Films
Vietnamese cinema gets the spotlight in Los Angeles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the UCLA Film and Television Archive in November. This is really a great line up of films and directors, both the canonical (Dang Nhat Minh), and the new, from both Viet Nam and the States. If you’re in L.A., you have to …(read more)
DVAN and Asian American Theater Co. host Andrew Lam reading
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and the Asian American Theater Company of San Francisco present Andrew Lam, reading in just …(read more)
Love Like Hate
The poet Linh Dinh has written a novel. It is a poet’s novel. Listen to the title: Love Like Hate. …(read more)
Monique Truong reads at DVAN event in the Bay Area
Don’t miss it! Monique Truong reads from her new novel, Bitter in the Mouth, at the California College of the …(read more)
An Interview with Musician Michael Nhat
Earlier this summer I took a sleeper bus from Nha Trang to Sài Gòn , reclining as best I …(read more)
Andrew Lam and Monique Truong read in Orange County
SANTA ANA – Pioneering Vietnamese American writers Monique Truong and Andrew Lam visit Southern California to celebrate the launch of …(read more)
Nikita, a show for the “postfeminist era?”
Along my commute on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, there’s an enormous billboard featuring Nikita’s Maggie Q; she’s wearing …(read more)
Quiet As They Come: A New Voice in Vietnamese American Literature
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here’s one from Stephen Sohn, professor of English at Stanford University, where he is …(read more)
Maggie Q: A New Nikita
Action flicks are my junk food– you name the genre: superhero, martial arts, fantasy, sci-fi and of course, SPY. When …(read more)
