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Reading Little Saigon
Vietnamese American Authors Read from Their Works

Oct. 18, 2007 :: No. 72

Who: Cal State Fullerton and the Viet Art Center
What:

Reading Little Saigon: Four Vietnamese American Authors
Vietnamese American authors Aimee Phan, Lan Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Quang Pham will read from their work.

When: October 21, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where:

Viet Art Center
12965 Main Street
Garden Grove, CA

Admission: Free
Background:

Offered in conjunction with “Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon,” a Smithsonian exhibition chronicling the growth of “Vietnamese America Since 1975,” at the Viet Art Center in Garden Grove through Dec. 15.

Lan Tran’s work has been featured on NPR and presented at numerous off-Broadway theaters, the Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theater, and the Ford Theatre "Lone Stars," a tale about her Vietnamese-Texan upbringing, was published in Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005) and Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books, 2004).

Viet Nguyen: Associate professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC, his publications include Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002), and short fiction in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New American Voices 2007 and A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection.
 
Aimee Phan: Her book, We Should Never Meet, was a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and The Oregonian. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Writing and Literature at the California College of the Arts. 

Quang X. Pham: As a refugee from Vietnam and U.S. Marine officer, Quang X. Pham provides rare insights into two of America's most controversial forays ever. He is a business executive and author of the acclaimed father-son memoir, A Sense of Duty.

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (presenter): Associate professor in Asian American Studies and Co-Director of the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University. Her academic work can be found in Mixed Race Literature (2002), The New Face of Asian Pacific America (2003), Amerasia Journal (2003)(2005) and Michigan Quarterly Review (2005). Her essays and creative works have been published in Making More Waves (1997), Tilting the Continent (2000) and Vietnam Dialogue Inside/Out (2001).

Media Contacts:

Christopher Bugbee, Public Affairs, 657-278-8487 or cbugbee@fullerton.edu
Michelle Nguyen, Viet Art Center, 714-534-0398 or michelle.nguyen@transvietimex.com


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