On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Her writing’s concision, its general lack of narrative, its refusal of standard forms, its gaps and pauses are all ways of interrupting the flow of experience and, more importantly, the conventions and directives—the normative ideologies—embedded within this flow…”
On Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
“Nguyen’s fragmentary counter-narrative both addresses and eludes recent histories of Vietnam, which like all wars doesn’t end when it stops. “—Alan Gilbert on Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure in Brooklyn Rail Books
Hoa Nguyen and the Singing of Loss
“Why try/to revive the lyric” : on Hoa Nguyen’s use of song across her work and in her book A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure