Kevin Nguyen

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Features Editor at The Verge

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

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

5 days 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?

5 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, April 25, 2025

2 weeks ago | shelf-awareness.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn |John Kenney |Andy Anderegg |Annika Norlin

Tomorrow is the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day! The event began in 2014 as California Bookstore Day, and has since grown in popularity to be an international celebration. It's a perfect day to support local bookstores, even stores that aren't participating. Many avid readers visit as many indie bookstores as they can in a single day. While you're out partying with your favorite booksellers, be sure to look for exciting new releases like The Trees Are Speaking by Lynda V.
Is Anora a broom? Because it swept last night.

2 months ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Posted Mar 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM UTCKKevin NguyenIs Anora a broom? Because it swept last night. Director Sean Baker started the evening with zero Oscars under his belt, and left with four — for original screenplay, film editing, director, and best picture. (Not to mention Mikey Madison’s win for best actress.) Last fall, The Verge spoke with Baker about how he made Anora’s scant $6 million budget look like a film made for $50 million. Anora’s Sean Baker writes the ending firstRobyn KannerOct 19
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Lorne Michaels.

2 months ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Posted Feb 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM UTCKKevin NguyenRE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Lorne Michaels. Saturday Night Live turned 50, but the real star-studded event was the accidentally un-BCC’d promo email for Lorne Michaels’s new memoir — a “reply-all disaster” featuring the likes Rosanne Cash, Jesse Eisenberg, and Renata Adler. Eventually, Tina Fey replied with a link to a YouTube video about how to use Gmail. “Ahahahahahahah!! Thanks Tina,” replied Jon Hamm.
Bon Iver x John Wilson.

2 months ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

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