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Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath | The On Being Project

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The exquisite writer, with language for the world we now inhabit — its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life.

Transcription by Heather Wang Krista Tippett, host: I interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020, in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York around a new virus. But none of us guessed that within a handful of days, such an event would become unimaginable. So, for me, this conversation has become a last memory before the world shifted on its axis. What’s most stunning is how exquisitely this conversation speaks to the world we have since come to inhabit — its heartbreak, its poetry, and its…

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