Celine Nguyen

3 weeks ago | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Alexander Le |Saba Siddiqi |Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen |Ben King

AbstractWhen COVID-19 data on Asian Americans are available, they are frequently aggregated, concealing community-specific concerns. Consequently, there is limited COVID-19 literature on Vietnamese Americans. In this study, we investigated the association between health insurance coverage and non-medical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Vietnamese Americans in Texas.

Oct 27, 2024 | open.substack.com | Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen |Elif Batuman

The most fulfilled people I know tend to have two traits. They’re insatiably curious—about new ideas, experiences, information and people. And they seem to exist in a state of perpetual, self-inflicted unhappiness. These people tend to have a project they’re working on. An essay. A poem. They’re reading Wittgenstein for the first time. Or rereading Proust. They’re rehearsing for a dance performance. Learning about carbon capture technologies. Making a track in Ableton. Knitting a jumper.

Jun 24, 2024 | thejester.substack.com | L. M. Sacasas |Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen

When I think about it for any reasonable amount of time, the concept of interviewing, or of being an interviewer, starts to feel exceptionally weird. At least, I think it’s weird if your goal is some sort of authenticity. To use verbiage that could have been in an essay, the “technology of the interview” somehow prescribes the sort of interaction you and an interviewee are about to have.

Jun 8, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character development, crisis, and conclusion in just a few thousand words. But intentionally reading more short stories made me realize that I’d underestimated the form. These works aren’t just compressed novels: They offer an entirely different experience.

Jun 5, 2024 | personalcanon.com | Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen

A few years ago, I came across a particularly evocative description of the website Are.na. I’ll describe Are.na in the plainest possible fashion first: it’s a website where you can privately or collaboratively save images, text, PDFs, website links, and more into “channels.” It’s kind of like Pinterest for artists, researchers, and academics. This is a useful description, but not a beautiful one.