Recent Interviews
Houston Asian American Archive – Oral History Collection, November 6, 2020
“Interview with Monique Truong”
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Deutschlandfunk, November 6, 2020
“Kultur heute”
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She’s A Talker podcast with Neil Goldberg, August 21, 2020
“Peak Desparation”
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Norman Van Aken, July 25, 2020
“Kitchen Conversations with Norman Van Aken and Monique Truong”
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Madras Cafe Unlocked, July 25, 2020
“Book Club Live: The Book of Salt by Monique Truong” with Rose Bradbury
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Library of America, July 9, 2020
“Monique Truong: Lafacadio Hearn’s wandering life as a search for home”
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CBC Radio – Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel, June 28, 2020
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Los Angeles Review of Books podcast with Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher, November 18, 2019
“Monique Truong’s 19th Century Triptych Portraiture”
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Mochi, October 29, 2019
“Monique Truong: Unearthing the Sweetest Fruits” by Sarah Jinee Park
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House of SpeakEasy, October 23, 2019
“Seriously Questioning: Monique Truong”
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World Literature Today (online), September 17, 2019
“Between the Facts: A Conversation with Monique Truong” by Renee H. Shea
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Asian American Writers’ Workshop – The Margins, September 12, 2019
“Voices in the Archive: An Interview with Monique Truong” by Benedict Nguyen
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Center for Fiction, September 10, 2019
“Book Launch: Monique Truong Presents The Sweetest Fruits with Mayukh Sen”
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WNNO Radio – The Reading Life with Susan Larson, September 8, 2019
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Electric Literature, September 6, 2019
“The Life of a Male Writer, Told by the Women Who Couldn’t Write His Story” by JR Ramakrishnan
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Food & Wine (online), September 5, 2019
“An Evening in the Kitchen with Brooklyn Novelist Monique Truong” by Cathy Erway
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But That’s Another Story podcast with Will Schwalbe, September 5, 2019
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Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb, August 30, 2019
“Q&A with Monique Truong”
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Publishers Weekly, July 5, 2019
“Monique Truong’s New Novel Shows the Unreliability of History” by Gabrielle Bellot
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TRANSIT magazine, October 2018
“Outsiders in New York” by Riyo Niimoto
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ASAP/J, July 6, 2017
“The Authority of Fiction: An Interview with Monique Truong” by Audrey Farley
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Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Winter 2016
“Food and Imagination: An Interview with Monique Truong” by Daniela Fargione
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L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, December 1, 2016
“Il mio nuovo pane quotidiano, intervista a Monique Truong” with Daniela Fargione
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The ConversationDOC series, 2016
“Waves of Immigration”
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diaCRITICS, September 17, 2015
“Phỏng vấn tác giả Monique Truong”
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The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch, August 12, 2015
“U.S. novelist chases secret life of acclaimed Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn”
The Mainichi Shimbun, June 15, 2015
“人模様：女性の視点で八雲を描く モニク・トゥルンさん”
North Carolina Literary Review, number 24, 2015
“Both Souths that I’ve Known: An Interview with Monique Truong”
by Kirstin Squint, with Nahem Yousaf
» read “An Appetite for Language: Introducing Monique Truong” by Lisa Hinrichsen
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The PEN American Center, February 18, 2014
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Authors Guild Bulletin, Spring 2013
Kartika Review, Spring 2013
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Fridae, November 14, 2012
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Los Angeles Review of Books with Mariam Lam, August 2012
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Seattlest, October 22, 2011
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The Nervous Breakdown, October 30, 2010
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Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt, October 28, 2010
The Agony Column, October 10, 2010
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Poets & Writers, September/October 2010
Lambda Literary Review, August 26, 2010
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Hedgebrook, 2010
“Five Questions”
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