Night, Again

"Night, Again is fresh, invigorating work. Taken all together, these brief prose pieces have the scope of a fine novel."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "Not only are these stories, almost without exception, very strong on purely literary grounds, but they also provide an invaluable firsthand documentation of a society undergoing rapid change."-The Times Literary Supplement "Unsentimental and sensual, the stories in Night, Again are imbued with sly wit and haunting music. The range of style and subject matter is impressive. Out of the ruins of war, these living writers demonstrate their profound resilience, poetic vision, and luminous artistry."-Jessica Hagedorn "Carefully chosen stories from writers whose styles and subject matter exhibit real range. . . . [T]hese pieces suggest a nuanced and decidedly polyvalent view of Vietnam."-A. Magazine "A forceful and stunning compendium by a talented editor, Night, Again is unquestionably one of the finest literary entries in years from the new Asia and is essential for modern Asia-Pacific collections."-Choice Praised for its documentary importance and literary brilliance when it was first published in 1996 and now updated with two new stories, Night, Again offers us the unique opportunity to see the Vietnamese through their own eyes and surprises us with its playfully ironic portraits. Awarded a Pew Fellowship in 1993 and hosted in Certaldo, Italy, as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and of Cities of Asylum, Linh Dinh is an accomplished author, poet, and translator. He has written two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, and two books of poems, All Around What Empties Out and American Tatts. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2000, The Best American Poetry 2004, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.

A recipient of a Pew Foundation grant, a David T. Wong Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and, most recently, the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH was born in Saigon in 1963 and emigrated to the United States in 1975. An acclaimed and provocative writer of short stories and contemporary fables, he is also the author of several books of poems and a novel, Love Like Hate. Linh has edited the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam and Three Vietnamese Poets. His collection of stories, Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the Best Books of 2004. Linh's nonfiction essays have been published regularly at Unz Review, LewRockwell, Intrepid Report and CounterCurrents, and his blog, Postcards from the End of America (linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com), is followed by thousands of readers. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.