Writing nonfiction, making ceramics; support from @yaddotoday, @peripluscollect, @tin_house & @breadloafwriter. Winner of the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize.
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The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
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Always a delight to read a book that depicts Southeast Asian families with idiosyncratic fullness—from a place of personal truth. I interviewed @randyribay about his recent novel, Everything We Never Had, which spans four generations of Filipino-American men.
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We talked about collectivism vs. individualism in the AAPI community, communication between generations of men, and Randy’s research process + inspirations.
Also I love working with @the_rumpus. Thanks to Annelies Zijderveld and Janet Rodriguez for the edits and support!
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Once, while peeling string beans, I asked Mom, “Do you dream in English or in Vietnamese?”
It took her a moment. She blinked a few times and responded, “I don’t know actually.”
The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
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“Linguists do not consider the silence between kin—the loss of connection when in shared moments, for lack of understanding, we default to the comfortable and easy: leaving things unsaid.”
Read @trubrian’s essay in @EcotoneMagazine, free for a few more days!
Check out Brian Truong’s new essay in the Labor issue!
For the next two weeks “The The The The” is free to read online!
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ALT “Cantonese became the language of food; Vietnamese became the language of arguments. We discarded all other uses for them. We shed our mother tongues like a snake leaving its molt. We hardly looked back.” --Brian Truong from “The The The The” Ecotone 35, Labor
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"...all these little benefits of my heritage were no longer accessible to me." Wonderful essay by @trubrian about assimilation, language loss, and the affective barriers that persist into adulthood. 💯 – at Dobong-gu, Republic of Korea
The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
ecotonemagazine.org/nonficti…
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Beautiful essay on family and language attrition backed by research (and adding to it!). Made me think about the flip side that is my urge to sound/write like a "native speaker."
The first essay I ever wrote is now out in @EcotoneMagazine! I wrote about my language loss, the seemingly simple trades we made for assimilation. Linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
ecotonemagazine.org/nonficti…
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“Is he mute?” “No, he’s American, silly!" had this EXACT interaction back in shanghai. so beautifully written & deep-cutting; from pressure of assimilation to stilted convos w haircutters & waiters to the somber realization that u never recover the words of ur grandparents. – at Manhattan, NY
Thanks for sharing, Tracy ❤️🩹 I feel for the great many of us who have inherited these complicated relationships with our languages & cultures 🫠
this essay on language loss as a second gen immigrant is heartbreakingly relatable. while i'll never feel 100% like i belong in america, i also only have tenuous connections to family in asia, not least because of the linguistic barriers
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A sneak preview of the piece...
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Check out Brian Truong’s new essay in the Labor issue!
For the next two weeks “The The The The” is free to read online!
ecotonemagazine.org/nonficti…
ALT “Cantonese became the language of food; Vietnamese became the language of arguments. We discarded all other uses for them. We shed our mother tongues like a snake leaving its molt. We hardly looked back.” --Brian Truong from “The The The The” Ecotone 35, Labor
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We had a wonderful time with @crucet and @trubrian in Athens last Friday! Big thanks to @AvidBookshop and @AthensClarkeLib for the support. ❤️🔥📚✍️
I’ll be reading with @crucet at @athensclarkelib/@avidbookshop this Friday in Athens, GA! All thanks to @georgiareview staff who worked to make sure a reading for the TGR Prose Prize still happened despite the Asian American Lit Festival cancelling 🥺🙏
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Speaking of which, @georgiareview Prose Prize subs are due Monday! The editors truly champion your work. Also true that writers of all backgrounds should submit! I was still unpublished when I won last year 😦
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My most heartfelt thank you to @alexmlwrites for their thoughtful, generous mentorship this past year and to @PeriplusCollect for making this community possible. Congratulations to the 2024 fellows - meet you all soon!!!! ✨
Congratulations to the new class of Periplus Fellows — our fourth — and thanks to @lithub for the announcement!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 lithub.com/announcing-the-20…
My first Pushcart nomination!! All my gratitude to the @EcotoneMagazine editors for championing my work. This little essay on language and heritage will be in the forthcoming issue 🚂
🎉Big congrats to our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominees! We're grateful to all our contributors from Issue 34 and forthcoming Issue 35 for writing such outstanding work. 💚
ALT Pushcart Nominees: Poetry - "Bathroom Therapy Club #29" by Renee Christopher, "Yard Song" by D. M. Spratley. Nonfiction - "The The The The" by Brian Truong, "A Plague of Locusts" by Julie Marie Wade. Fiction - "In the Pines" by Analía Villagra, "The Story of Ennui" by Douglas Watson.
I spoke with the wondrous @jaminlin about her memoir, The Night Parade, for @ChicagoRevBooks!! In many ways, it was an easy interview because of Jami’s limitless wisdom and jubilance, which I hope we were able to capture some of 💫
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We talked about folklore as a way into personal truth, the power & limitations of naming, recovering intergenerational stories, and—a bonus—a little yokai that we might see in Jami’s future writing!
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