Kevin Nguyen

New York

Features Editor at The Verge

author of New Waves. features editor @verge. everything is embarrassing.

Articles

Constancy and Surprise: What Editing Magazines Taught Me About Writing Fiction

1 week ago | pw.org | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

I started my first novel because my day job was boring. It was the 2010s, the waning years of the Silicon Valley boom, and I was in a low-level position at a gigantic tech company where I was mostly tasked with regurgitating PowerPoints. When I wasn’t losing at ping-pong in the dedicated ping-pong room, I usually squirreled away in nap pods trying to write.
How to get students to stop using AI.

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Posted May 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM UTCKKevin NguyenHow to get students to stop using AI. James D. Walsh’s excellent New York Magazine piece about college students cheating their way through school with ChatGPT has provoked a lot of education discourse, much of which reluctantly surrenders that AI is here and that there’s no way to stop people from using it.
5 Signs Someone Has Been Through A Lot

1 month ago | medium.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

1 .Nothing surprises them anymoreYou probably someone in your life who seem unfazed by the challenges that life throw at them. Maybe it’s a friend, a family member, an acquaintance, or even yourself. No matter how difficult the problem present itself, they maintain their calmness and equanimity on their way to a solution. Vehicle breaking down in the middle of nowhere? They pull over and start checking on the engine without a second thought. Losing their precious job?
“Recurring Screens.”

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

In poet Nora Claire Miller’s short, moving essay, she draws a line from the very first screensaver (SCRNSAVE, 1983) to the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962) to her family’s flight during the Holocaust (Austria, 1938). I particularly loved this bit about taking apart her grandmother’s iMac:I took the Strawberry apart thirty-nine times. (I kept count.) I didn’t really know what I was doing. I cut my hands open on the logic board more than once.
Tall Tales is a critique of AI - so why do people think it was made with AI?

1 month ago | technewstube.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

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Tall Tales is a critique of AI - so why do people think it was made with AI?

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Entertainment /FilmThe visual accompaniment to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s new album is catching heat for the wrong reasons. But artist Jonathan Zawada explains how it started. May 9, 2025, 2:30 PM UTCEntertainment /FilmThe visual accompaniment to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s new album is catching heat for the wrong reasons. But artist Jonathan Zawada explains how it started.
The story everyone at The Verge is reading today.

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

We’re mostly DMing each other to say that the younger generation is cooked. At New York, James D. Walsh surveys the zoomers who are using AI to do all of their college homework — a trend that is obvious and no less alarming. Take the story of Wendy, for example: she used ChatGPT to write an essay arguing that the use of technology is hampering students’ ability to think. The irony is lost on her.
I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

1 month ago | lithub.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

My new novel imagines a world where a right-wing US government passes an executive order that calls for the mass incarceration of people based on their ethnicity. Protest movements confront the Constitutional crisis until they fizzle out; Democrats barely put up a fight. It may not be exactly what’s happening under the Trump administration, but readers have seen the parallels very clearly.
I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

NowThe media mogul publicly addressed being gay for the first time, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. “Today he opened to the world,” she said. During his decades as a media mogul, Barry Diller has held an array of powerful titles, serving as chairman and chief executive of …
How lit mag McSweeney’s turned itself into a box

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Tech /Creators /Art ClubWhat is the Vietnamese diaspora? McSweeney’s latest issue tries to answer that question with a fake cigar box. May 5, 2025, 3:15 PM UTC Courtesy of McSweeney’sKevin Nguyen is a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation.