“um during the Soviet Polish war in Red Calvary. Now you can describe a sunset”
Books mentioned in Ocean Vuong Teaches the Art of Writing (NYU Professor)
From How I Write · 2026-03-25
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“it's in a book called um The Method of Hope. And he says, "Well, I don't go”
“Iliad a poem or a story? If you look at the the Banttom classics from the 50s”
“know, Rambo's um season in hell, a hybrid text of pros poetry. And so there”
“book Crush, which is about queer loss and and desire in the '9s in the wake of”
“>> there's a poem by Robert Browning, meeting at night. I can't for the life”
“used that to write three lives it you know and also like Ddian Capot you know”
“way. And one of my favorites, JA Baker, does the same thing, right? Just look at”
“Melville last week. >> They were reading Shakespeare. They were”
“Beer Stow's uncle Tom's cabin created the civil war according to Lincoln um”