Hello! Special guest this week. Ocean Vuong, a poet, novelist, essayist, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Ocean has won the Whiting Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was recently a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Jay and Ocean talked about Mixed Martial Arts, Ocean’s novel, and whether one can be a writer and a Buddhist at the same time. The conversation went to completely unexpected places — lots of discussion about Wang Wei, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, and Anderson Silva.
This was the conversation that made me say “oh shit, this is a good podcast!” and “dang, I need to re-read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, I missed so much.”
This was the conversation that made me say “oh shit, this is a good podcast!” and “dang, I need to re-read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, I missed so much.”