Bible! I’ll admit, I’m not deeply religious, or all that devout too, sorry mom, I blame all the wonderful secular distractions I’m willingly surrounded by- t.h.e.Bible! But the sacrilege to me honestly has nothing to do with how I was religiously raised or was supposed to live by as a good Samaritan and stuff, but because as a piece of literature, it is profound the effect it has had on our world and all the deep allegory, or are they?, within the pages-but what do I know, I wear a banana suit and tell people to enjoy my Crispy Tofu balls over a comfortably loud megaphone. This is going to seem like complete sacrilege, in the most literal sense, all joking aside because I grew up Catholic in the buckle of the Bible belt- t.h.e. He’s a kid detective solving mysteries, crimes, and his ragtag friends’ problems-I wanted to be that kid, but I honestly, probably cause more problems than I can solve, LOL. I think every kid wants to be some kind of hero, and him being a cerebral superhero, of sorts, really felt more attainable and relatable to nerdy and slightly insecure me. For the last year, I really wanted my answer to be Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, which is like David Sedaris-lite, right? ^_^ What was your favorite book when you were a child?Ībout every Encyclopedia Brown book I could get my hands on. Well, to be honest, I don’t have any book on my nightstand because, and I hate to be so stereotypical and even slightly predictable, I read on the toilet the most-and many times not for the usual reasons other than I get great light there for reading- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, which is a short-story compilation edited by the king of sardonic hilarity, David Sedaris. What book Is currently on your nightstand? This program revolved around his unexpected path to becoming a restauranteur and his cookbook/memoir: Adventures in Starry Kitchen: 88 Asian-Inspired Recipes from America’s Most Famous Underground Restaurant. And, in the depths of the 2008 fall of the economy, Starry Kitchen, the illegal-and-underground apartment restaurant he and his wife Thi Tran created out of sheer necessity to survive, was born.Īhead of Nguyen Tran's exciting program, we thought we'd ask Tran some questions to get to know him a bit better before his event at the Taper Auditorium in Central Library. ![]() Next, he landed at the kingmaker famous, and stressfully infamous, William Morris Agency mailroom. ![]() He graduated with a, then useless, Computer Science degree, and moved to Hollywood to sell TV re-runs. There, he worked at a dot.com before the first internet bubble burst. Meet Nguyen Tran - the unlikely banana suit-wearing, Virginia born, culturally confused Vietnamese-American son of Vietnam War refugees who settled in Dallas, TX.
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