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The Epicurean Vagabonds present Aesthetic ArrestAesthetic Arrest: The Book of Salt, Peter Murphy's Silver Shade & A Nice Indian Boy!Plus the sensational mixed media collage art of Lavett Ballard & the "Father of French Gastronomy” — Antonin Carême!Wildstar’s Wednesday Libation: Domaine Vincent Carême Vouvray Sec (Loire, France)Reading: The Book of Salt by Monique TruongListening: Silver Shade by Peter MurphyLooking: The Art of Lavett Ballard — including her current exhibition...
2025-05-1444 min
The Deep Dive DiariesTop Ten Tales of the YearIn Episode 4, Violet and Lucia reveal the top ten tales they've read in the past year. These books discuss themes of first-generation Asian American identity, explore the impacts of racism and colonialism, and provide perspectives on how certain political worldviews are developed. Listen in as we explore how intersectionality emerges in these thematic novels.Content warning: this episode briefly mentions rape, substance abuse, and racial trauma.Books mentioned in this episode:Making a Scene, Constance WuTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle ZevinWhat We Kept to...
2025-03-1342 min
As Told ToEpisode 59: Douglas Preston"What really amazed me here was that so many of the authors who submitted stories wrote something completely outside their genre," reflects best-selling author Douglas Preston, one of the project editors behind the dynamic new collaborative novel Fourteen Days. "This book is full of all kinds of weird stories." Yes, it is. And so is podcast guest Douglas Preston, co-author of dozens of New York Times best-selling thrillers written with his longtime writing partner Lincoln Child—a shining example of what it means to write in collaboration. In all, Preston has published 39 books of fiction and non-fiction. In...
2024-02-271h 09
New Books in Literary StudiesTimothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timothy K. August centers Southeast Asian American writers and artists to develop a theory of refugee aesthetics as a way of considering how aesthetic forms are created and contested by refugees, nonrefugees, and institutions alike.On this episode of New Books in Asian American Studies, Timothy K. August discusses the contradictions in how refugee stories are read as arising from exceptional circumstances even as the ever-increasing number of refugees renders refugeeness a remarkably everyday experience; the importance of aesthetics as a means by which refugees are ab...
2023-12-3042 min
New Books in Asian American StudiesTimothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timothy K. August centers Southeast Asian American writers and artists to develop a theory of refugee aesthetics as a way of considering how aesthetic forms are created and contested by refugees, nonrefugees, and institutions alike.On this episode of New Books in Asian American Studies, Timothy K. August discusses the contradictions in how refugee stories are read as arising from exceptional circumstances even as the ever-increasing number of refugees renders refugeeness a remarkably everyday experience; the importance of aesthetics as a means by which refugees are ab...
2023-12-3042 min
New Books in ArtTimothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timothy K. August centers Southeast Asian American writers and artists to develop a theory of refugee aesthetics as a way of considering how aesthetic forms are created and contested by refugees, nonrefugees, and institutions alike.On this episode of New Books in Asian American Studies, Timothy K. August discusses the contradictions in how refugee stories are read as arising from exceptional circumstances even as the ever-increasing number of refugees renders refugeeness a remarkably everyday experience; the importance of aesthetics as a means by which refugees are ab...
2023-12-3042 min
BreakfastersSalad Spinners, Fruit Tips & Japanese BirdsThe team discuss salad spinners and leaf blowers; Book lover Fi Wright shares her opinion on Tom Lake by Ann Patchett; Comedian Tom Ballard chats about his Fringe Festival show YESNO: A Comedy Lecture; The Fruit Nerd, Thanh Truong shares his best tips and trick for buying fresh produce; Sean 'Birdman' Dooley provides some insight to the birds of Japan; and Nat is wondering how to optimise a coffee order. With presenters Monique Sebire, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Twit...
2023-10-061h 08
Poured OverZadie Smith on THE FRAUD"There's no higher version of historical fiction to me than that, the feeling of being transported." Zadie Smith's The Fraud brings all the excitement of a Victorian novel with a cast of characters that will be familiar (Charles Dickens, anyone?) and a wild web of plots that combine the best of historical fiction with themes that still resonate. Smith joins us to talk about the different process she used while writing, the importance of knowing and understanding history, freedom, resistance and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book...
2023-09-051h 06
Challenge. Change.Coming of Age Stories and Confronting Divided Loyalties with Professor Spencer TrickerEnglish Professor Spencer Tricker enjoys the study of divided loyalties. When a person explores the dynamic between their conflicting allegiances, it often leads to an inner tug-of-war. Tricker experienced this while growing into his identity as a mixed-race person raised in the United States and Hong Kong. It’s also a research subject. Tricker is working on a book project about transpacific migration from Asia to the U.S., studying the impact of cosmopolitan rhetoric in an area historically connected to military conflicts such as World War II and the Philippine-American, Korean, and Vietnam wars.In the cl...
2023-04-2812 min
Modern Minorities2021 year in reviewAs 2021 comes to a close, we put together a not-so-quick compilation of our favorite moments from all of the great conversations we had over the past year. So sit back with a beverage of choice, enjoy, and please DO share our podcast with a friend (and leave us a review) — it makes a big difference! We can’t wait for you to hear what’s next in the new year!Got a guest idea or want to ask a question? Email us! himom@modmypod.comxoxo,SHARON & RAMAN=PS - Hear...
2021-12-3139 min
What Even Is...?🎃 Spooktacular 👻: What Even are Paranormal Investigators? Part 2 with Paranormal New EnglandIn this episode, host Donna Truong speaks with the investigators of the paranormal investigation group Paranormal New England - Julie Finn, Scott Hebert, and Monique Geyser.This episode goes over:their scariest encounter with ghostswhat people are susceptible to hauntingsparanormal investigation equipmentParanormal New England's most convincing evidencewhy they got into paranormal investigationpsychic mediumship and empathsand more!Julie Finn has been investigating the paranormal throughout U.S. and international locations for over 10 years. She is now an investigator with Paranormal New England and also the YouTube channel Paranormal Roadtrip.Massachusetts native Scott Hebert is an...
2021-10-2744 min
Modern MinoritiesMonique Truong ain’t takin (flavor) bulliesMonique Truong is an award-winning author - but she’s really a Southern girl twice over, having been born in South Vietnam and lived in the American South. Her 3 acclaimed novels are all must-reads - The Book of Salt (2003), Bitter in the Mouth (2010), and The Sweetest Fruits (2019). You can also find her writing on food and writing all over the mainstream - and foodie - media. And just so none of our parents are worried, if none of that works out, she can always fall back on her background as an intellectual property attorney. From stories of awkward meals to...
2021-07-261h 07
By The BookBy the Book: The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique TruongMonique Truong’s latest novel, The Sweetest Fruits, takes a unique approach to telling the story of Lafcadio Hearn, celebrated Japanese writer of Greek-Irish descent: the book is narrated by three different women in his life, from three different times and places. We speak with Monique about her process of researching and writing this story, and more generally, on the question of, who gets to tell a story? We wrap up the show with a review of the book, and our experiences reading it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-06-0135 min
Meat + ThreeThe Flavor of MemoryIn celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we dedicate our episode to memory and how it has shaped AAPI food experiences. Many of us have probably eaten meals where long after the plate has been cleared, the taste still lingers in our mind. But we don’t just remember food — food can spark and capture memory as well. For those who have immigrated across countries, food can act as a vessel through which the flavors and stories of their past live on.Today, our episode explores how the smell, taste, or story behind dishes can...
2021-05-2228 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Monique TruongMonique Truong on her selection:
On March 5, 2020, mere days before COVID-19 would change our day-to-day existence, I attended a crowded bookstore reading here in NYC, where Yoko Tawada and her friend Bettina Brandt read from Tawada's novel, Memoirs of a Polar Bear. They sat side-by-side, each wearing one white glove, and occasionally they held over their respective faces a hand-drawn polar bear mask, made for the occasion by Tawada. I couldn’t make up such delights. Now, when I revisit the off-kilter originality of Tawada’s novel, featuring not one but three polar bear narrators, it brings me right back to t...
2021-02-2815 min
Aboriginal PodcastAboriginal Podcast 051: Christian MoniqueChristian Monique
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2021-02-2459 min
She's A TalkerMonique Truong: Peak DesperationWriter Monique Truong describes her love of showering when it's raining outside. Neil realizes he is bad in a crisis. ABOUT THE GUEST Monique Truong is the Vietnamese American author of the bestselling, award-winning novels, The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits. She’s also a former refugee, essayist, avid eater, lyricist/librettist, and intellectual property attorney (more or less in this order). ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that The New York Times has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deep...
2020-08-2142 min
The Cultural FrontlineThe art of the Vietnam WarVietnamese American author Monique Truong presents an examination of the female perspective of the Vietnam War, through the prism of art.Featuring American artists who were at the vanguard of the opposition to the war, along with women who shared the same experiences as Monique - born in Vietnam during the conflict, who experienced the war first hand and whose lives were changed forever - this programme explores five decades of protest art, offering a female perspective on the fallout of a conflict that virtually defined the 60s.
In America, it was called the Vietnam War; in...
2020-05-0326 min
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment[German] - Sweetest Fruits: Roman (Eine Koproduktion mit hr2-kultur) by Monique TruongPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/476529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sweetest Fruits: Roman (Eine Koproduktion mit hr2-kultur) Author: Monique Truong Narrator: Henni Jörissen, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Barbara Philipp, Rebecca Madita Hundt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 4, 2020 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Truong hat einen grandiosen, vielstimmigen Roman des Reisens und des Sich-Neuerfindens vorgelegt. Er überschreitet Grenzen um Grenzen und wird sich doch in Ihr Herz eingraben.' Anthony Marra, Autor von 'Die niedrigen Himmel' Das spannende und ungewöhnliche Leben des Schriftsellers Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904) zwischen Griechenland, Irland, England, Amerika und Jap...
2020-02-0403 min
LA Review of BooksLiterary LA: Yogita Goyal on the Slave Narrative, Past and PresentYogita Goyal, author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, joins Eric, Medaya, and Kate to discuss the shape of traditional slave narrative and the ways it has been transformed over the past 70 years across the world and in different genres. Goyal talks about what drew her to this subject, and about teaching the slave story in the Trump and Kanye era. She contrasts abolitionist era slave narratives with those from the past five decades, following their return to prominence in African-American literature in the 1970s, bringing together work by Paul Beatty, Colson Whitehead, and Toni Morrison.
Also, Monique...
2019-11-2242 minLA Review of BooksMonique Truong's 19th Century Triptych PortraitureCo-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with author Monique Truong about her new multi-voiced novel The Sweetest Fruits; aptly titled given its sensuality, and special attention to cuisine. Monique explains her decision to write in the voices of three women - one Greek, one African-American, and one Japanese - all of whom were central figures in the life of globetrotting 19th century author, Lafcadio Hearn, who was born in Greece and is best known for his books about Japan. Giving voice to amazing souls that history and patriarchal culture have put under erasure.
Also, Stephen Van Dyck, author of...
2019-11-0938 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesMonique Truong, "THE SWEETEST FRUITS" w/ Diep TranThe Sweetest Fruits introduces readers to a trio of tenacious, brave, and inspiring women who have largely been left out of the historical record—until now. In her beautifully crafted and captivating work, Monique Truong retells the remarkable life story of 19th century writer, wanderer, and epicurean Lafcadio Hearn through the eyes of those who cared for him and made his work possible.
Truong is in conversation with Diep Tran, chef and former owner of Good Girl Dinette in Los Angeles.
2019-11-071h 03
But That's Another StoryMonique TruongWriter Monique Truong on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, food in literature, and seeing stories from a different angle. To learn more about the books we discussed in this episode, check out Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lafcadio Hearn’s Creole Cookbook by Lafcadio Hearn and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
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2019-09-0625 min
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel by Monique TruongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369297to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel
Author: Monique Truong
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan, Emily Woo Zeller, Adenrele Ojo, Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Release date: September 3, 2019
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, comes “a sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention” (Anthony Marra) '[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women' (Kirkus Reviews) A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her...
2019-09-039h 26Discover the Best Audio Stories in Fiction, HistoricalThe Sweetest Fruits: A Novel by Monique TruongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369297to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Sweetest Fruits: A Novel
Author: Monique Truong
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan, Emily Woo Zeller, Adenrele Ojo, Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Release date: September 3, 2019
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, comes “a sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention” (Anthony Marra) '[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women' (Kirkus Reviews) A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her...
2019-09-039h 26
The Red PenEpisode 5: Who Was the Man Who Betrayed Harry StylesAustin journeys through the annals of revisionist history with Monique Truong's The Book of Salt and Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Amanda has a meltdown over a man named Bobert. This episode tackles big sexy metaphors, the future of real person fan fiction, and the great power (and great responsibility) of using fiction to counter dominant historical narratives.
Content warnings: discussion of racism and xenophobia, serial killers, and awful dudes from history.
2019-02-2600 min
Get Lost In This Immersive Full Audiobook — Perfect At Home.The Book of Salt by Monique TruongPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/217528to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Salt
Author: Monique Truong
Narrator: J. Paul Boehmer
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 08-01-13
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 105 ratings
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
2013-08-0110h 24
BookwormMonique Truong: Bitter in the MouthBitter in the Mouth (Random House)
Monique Truong is an intransigent—she will not settle for anyone's desire to interpret or in any way falsity the world she knows. This time Vietnamese-born Truong sets to revealing the lies implicit in the question, "What is it like to grow up Asian in America?"
2010-10-2830 min
The Splendid TableWinter GrillingBrush the snow off the Weber! Steven Raichlen is back and he's talking winter grilling. Never mind that the wind chill is 10 below. Steven's Green Lightning Shrimp, from his book BBQ USA, will warm you to your toes.The Sterns get a jolt from the Tabasco Ice Cream at Robin's Restaurant in Henderson, Louisiana. "Bright Lights, Big City" guy Jay McInerney wants us to think Rose Champagne for Valentine's Day. It's what we'll be sipping with Lynne's Double Dark Chocolate Excess.Tea expert Bill Waddington brings us his guide to pairing tea with food. Monique Truong takes us...
2005-02-151h 00
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & EatersWinter GrillingBrush the snow off the Weber! Steven Raichlen is back and he's talking winter grilling. Never mind that the wind chill is 10 below. Steven's Green Lightning Shrimp, from his book BBQ USA, will warm you to your toes.The Sterns get a jolt from the Tabasco Ice Cream at Robin's Restaurant in Henderson, Louisiana. "Bright Lights, Big City" guy Jay McInerney wants us to think Rose Champagne for Valentine's Day. It's what we'll be sipping with Lynne's Double Dark Chocolate Excess.Tea expert Bill Waddington brings us his guide to pairing tea with...
2005-02-1500 min
The Splendid TableThe Joys of Eating VegetarianThis week it's the story behind Greens, the first eatery to turn vegetables into serious, fabulous eating. Today, some twenty years later, the San Francisco restaurant founded by a group of Buddhists is still going strong. Lynne talks with Chef Annie Somerville, the guiding force behind this American classic and author of Everyday Greens: Home Cooking from Greens, the Celebrated Vegetarian Restaurant. Fire up your grill and try Annie's recipe for Grilled Fingerling Potato Salad with Corn and Cherry Tomatoes.On the other hand, the seductive aroma of sausages moved the Sterns to follow their noses to Otto's Sausage...
2004-06-261h 00
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & EatersThe Joys of Eating VegetarianThis week it's the story behind Greens, the first eatery to turn vegetables into serious, fabulous eating. Today, some twenty years later, the San Francisco restaurant founded by a group of Buddhists is still going strong. Lynne talks with Chef Annie Somerville, the guiding force behind this American classic and author of Everyday Greens: Home Cooking from Greens, the Celebrated Vegetarian Restaurant. Fire up your grill and try Annie's recipe for Grilled Fingerling Potato Salad with Corn and Cherry Tomatoes.On the other hand, the seductive aroma of sausages moved the Sterns to follow their noses...
2004-06-2600 minBookwormMonique TruongThe Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin)
The Vietnamese cook in the famous Paris house of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas narrates Monique Truong's first novel...
2003-07-1729 min