Phuc Tran

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ÁCCENTED

Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network

61 episodes

3 days ago

Welcome to ÁCCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, hosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, and Philip Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American Studies scholar and community activist. In 2020, DVAN developed and launched ÁCCENTED as a virtual program. Once a month, DVAN presents virtual events accessible to a global audience, showcasing writers, poets, visual artists, actors, filmmakers, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, to present their work and discuss topics important to them. Learn more at https://dvan.org/

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Phuc Tran

ÁCCENTED

49 minutes 28 seconds

2 months ago

Phuc Tran

Phuc Tran converses with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Phuc Tran was born in Sài Gòn Việt Nam, his family fled to America in 1975, and he grew up in Carlisle PA. Reared on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, John Hughes, Star Wars, Bones Brigade videos, and bootlegged cassettes of Minor Threat and TSOL, he graduated high school in 1991. He majored in Classical Languages and Literature at Bard College—how did no one talk him out of that?—got his Master’s Degree at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then moved to New York City in 1997. There he apprenticed to be a tattooer while teaching Latin during the day, and he's been teaching and tattooing ever since. He's never been good at staying in one lane—ask his wife about his driving. In April 2020 my memoir Sigh, Gone was published by Flatiron Books. You can read the memoir to get all the gory details of his childhood and adolescence, but spoiler alert: he does somehow survive.

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