New Waves

New Waves https://newwaves.website New Waves Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:46:58 +0000 https://newwaves.website en Header https://newwaves.website/Header Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:55:14 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/Header <img width="779" height="996" width_o="779" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d685ecd023e418206031ef727834e02498cb3aaa4dbaa28977f974c930bd39c/computer.png" data-mid="62076717" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/779/i/5d685ecd023e418206031ef727834e02498cb3aaa4dbaa28977f974c930bd39c/computer.png" /> New Waves a novel by Kevin Nguyen The Book https://newwaves.website/The-Book Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:49:18 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/The-Book Praise for New Waves “A brilliant meditation on death and grief in the age of the internet. New Waves is full of modern noise and complicated love. Its prismatic, futuristic take on race and identity are a thrill to read. The book is funny and sad in equal measure, inventive, self-aware, full of insight, but also entirely enjoyable.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There “In New Waves, a grieving young man dives into the dizzying kaleidoscope of twenty-first-century online culture, trying to understand his lost friend and the difference between our real lives and our virtual ones—or is there one? Kevin Nguyen’s debut is a knowing, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to exist—especially as a person of color—in our increasingly digital age.” —Celeste Ng,  author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere“E.M. Forster’s mandate was to ‘only connect.’ Kevin Nguyen shows us that in our brave new digital world, the best way to do that might be to disconnect. The result is New Waves, a sleek, stylish novel that weaves between disaffection and desire.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees “Kevin Nguyen’s New Waves collapses every tired distinction about the internet. In this novel of relationships, race, and loss, everything is both permanent and ephemeral—technology both preserves and buries culture, and the people who ghost you can also haunt you. With his swift, funny, and merciless prose, Nguyen smartly dissects how life online may be digital, but it’s far from binary.”—Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens“New Waves is a delight and a gamble and a treasure and a miracle. Nguyen’s novel broke my heart. It made me laugh harder than any book reasonably should. It’s everything I could possibly want in a story—but it’s also that rarest, most unachievable of things: New Waves is truly something new.”—Bryan Washington, author of Lot“New Waves is a virtuosic debut novel delving into the wild vicissitudes of living with, and on, the internet. I’ll read anything by Kevin Nguyen.”—R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries“Mordant and fiercely smart, Kevin Nguyen’s New Waves is a mystery within a mystery within a love story and it left me haunted, breathless. An ambitious, unsparing, exhilarating debut.”—Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me and Dare Me “New Waves is not one novel, but several: an acerbic portrait of startup culture, a circa-now account of twentysomething life in New York City, a moving exploration of grief, and a clear-eyed appraisal of race, sex, and privilege. Nguyen deserves our loudest applause.”—Ryan Chapman, author of Riots I Have Known“I can’t tell any of my white friends about your book.”— Kevin’s mom  <img width="3634" height="2723" width_o="3634" height_o="2723" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f546b1f5d3befdfc2e26fd0ed40f22e8c0f999c6de7fc2bd16df2145894773d6/new-waves-tmac-blue-edit.JPG" data-mid="64374213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f546b1f5d3befdfc2e26fd0ed40f22e8c0f999c6de7fc2bd16df2145894773d6/new-waves-tmac-blue-edit.JPG" /> Photo by Tatiana Mac Buy it from Indiebound Buy it from Amazon Buy it from Barnes & Noble Frequently Asked Questions https://newwaves.website/Frequently-Asked-Questions Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:54:50 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/Frequently-Asked-Questions FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What happens when we die?The ones who love us will miss us. Wait, isn’t that what Keanu said— —and in their grief, their behavior will become strange and selfish. Almost hilariously so. Is that what New Waves is about? Well, sort of. Events https://newwaves.website/Events Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:44:21 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/Events <img width="200" height="200" width_o="200" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99d8c8a5c57b28d61ac33b5c76d231964384e482fb33e0de5b42ebf0c25bbafd/slack-imgs-2.gif" data-mid="72887771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/200/i/99d8c8a5c57b28d61ac33b5c76d231964384e482fb33e0de5b42ebf0c25bbafd/slack-imgs-2.gif" /> March 10 - Brooklyn, NYBooks Are Magicwith Hua Hsu <img width="200" height="200" width_o="200" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a82e39db97bb58d512d836083523bd908b8a01feefec55180c37db5cc8d3f86d/slack-imgs-1.gif" data-mid="72885569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/200/i/a82e39db97bb58d512d836083523bd908b8a01feefec55180c37db5cc8d3f86d/slack-imgs-1.gif" /> March 30Amerie’s Book Club April 2One World Ideas x Actionwith Cathy Park Hong & Mira Jacob April 21At Home with Literatiwith Rebecca Dinerstein April 24BuzzFeed Readerwith Veronica Roth & Arianna Rebolini April 28Ivy Bookshop Book Club April 30The New Republic Salon Serieswith Laura Marsh May 8BOMB Magazine EOD May 9Les Bleus Literary Salon June 9 - Brooklyn, NYAntibody Reading Series Press https://newwaves.website/Press Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:46:58 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/Press Reviews for New Waves “Nguyen’s own attempts to infuse New Waves with politics, heart and reality are admirable. He captures beautifully the subtle strains of being disenfranchised, poor and lonely in New York.” — New York Times Book Review “New Waves manages to be both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being.” — Los Angeles TImes “While satirizing the tech world’s social mores, Nguyen also unearths the biases that govern our digital infrastructure, which are omnipresent in everything from the algorithm behind Pac-Man to the underpinnings of surveillance technology.“ — The New Yorker “Funny and sad, smart and wise, completely of the moment, this is a book you want to read.“  — Newsday “Mr. Nguyen is insightful and precise about the particular kind of emptiness that can infect the tech world.”— Wall Street Journal “An exciting debut about the ways young people connect at work and beyond as their lives migrate online.” — GQ “Though death dominates the proceedings, New Waves itself is a novel that is very much alive.” — New York Observer “What propels the novel forward is its easy readability and cactus-sharp wit.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Nguyen’s ambitious debut is a mash-up of reflection, growth, and rumination on death. In a world that seems increasingly chaotic and divided, Nguyen offers a refuge with his humble, distinct take on race relations in America, and smart analysis of the ways technology shape our personal and public lives.“ — Ploughshares “Nguyen’s stellar debut is a piercing assessment of young adulthood, the tech industry, and racism.”— Publishers Weekly, starred review ⭐️ “A blistering sendup of startup culture and a sprawling, ambitious, tender debut.” — Kirkus, starred review ⭐️ “If a Venn diagram highlighted the overlaps among racism, sexism, technology, and millennial ennui, Nguyen’s edgy novel would be smack–dab at the center.“ — Booklist, starred review ⭐️ “New Waves is a funny, biting critique of tech culture” —SF Weekly “Readers deeply immersed in our increasingly tech-savvy environment will delight in Nguyen’s piercing take on race and gender issues in the workplace, and the ethical debates swirling around social media sites.“ — Bookpage More Press Interview on NPR’s All Things Considered Interview on WNYC’s All of It Interview in Hazlitt Interview in The Rumpus Interview in Hyphen Profile in Kirkus Interview on NBC News NY Post’s Best Books of the Week Amazon’s Best Books of the Month, March 2020 Publishers Weekly Writer’s to Watch, Spring 2020 Previewed in: Vulture, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Lit Hub, The Week, Dazed, Book Riot, Paste, Entertainment Weekly More Frequently Asked Questions https://newwaves.website/More-Frequently-Asked-Questions Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:12:39 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/More-Frequently-Asked-Questions MORE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is it true you wrote New Waves on your phone? It started as an accident in my Notes app. Now it’s an accident you can buy as a book. Is this book a thriller? No, it’s more of a bumble-y, in-its-feelings kind of book. Who would publish this book? One World, a very cool imprint of Penguin Random House. Honestly, I don’t really read. I’m more of a podcast person. There’s a very well-produced audiobook version, with three different narrators. No, I think I’ll stick with The Daily. Godspeed! The Author https://newwaves.website/The-Author Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:03:58 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/The-Author <img width="4320" height="6048" width_o="4320" height_o="6048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4318a7e413e8fc3ff9373d028b233b7ecd831f8423898885921a8a2aeeef60c0/Kevin-Nguyen-10025-2.jpg" data-mid="62059747" border="0" data-draggable data-rotation="-15" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4318a7e413e8fc3ff9373d028b233b7ecd831f8423898885921a8a2aeeef60c0/Kevin-Nguyen-10025-2.jpg" /> Photo by Matt Martin WHO SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? Kevin Nguyen is the features editor at The Verge, and formerly a senior editor at GQ. New Waves is his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn 🤮 Contact https://newwaves.website/Contact Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:58:56 +0000 New Waves https://newwaves.website/Contact CONTACT Twitter @knguyen Instagram @knguyen Email By request Publicity Andrea Pura & Sarah Jean Grimm Agent Sarah Bowlin Computer logo by Willem Van Lancker