Essays and Nonfiction
LitHub: How Writing a Novel is Like Wandering a Flea Market
The Washington Post: An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of ‘The Sympathizer’
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York: Fondly, Marie
The New York Times: Why It Matters That ‘Emily Doe’ in the Brock Turner Case Is Asian-American
The New York Times: Seeking the Comfort of an Old Flame: Solitude
The New York Times: Harvard and the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian
The New York Times: What ‘White’ Food Meant to a First-Generation Kid
Literary Hub: Not Finishing My Novel Would Have Ruined My Life
The New York Times: An American Woman Quits Smiling
The Believer: Crestwood Lake, Allendale, NJ
Buzzfeed: Who In America Is Allowed To Be Ordinary?
Largehearted Boy: Book Notes for The Leavers
The Offing: 20 Lessons on How to be American
Short Fiction
McSweeney’s Issue 68: “Celestial City”
Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts: “Nightlife”
Amazon Original Stories: “The Contractors”
Copper Nickel: “Pat + Sam” (published in Best American Short Stories 2016)