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I'm Kevin Nguyen, and I'm an editor at The Bygone Bureau. I'm also on Twitter. I'll be linking some of my writing. Currently, I live in Seattle, WA.

October 7, 2009 at 11:12pm

Designing "Lolita" →

September 8, 2009 at 12:16am

The Life Pursuit: An Interview with Maira Kalman →

You may know her from here or here or here. I got a cute email back from Ms. Kalman this morning wishing me a “happy crispy september.”

(And yes, the title is a Belle & Sebastian reference.)

August 19, 2009 at 5:08pm

A Different Kind of Blue →

A look behind the scenes at Kind of Bloop, a track-by-track 8-bit cover album of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. Features interviews with project organizer Andy “Waxy” Baio and Shnabubula, one of the chiptune artists on the album.

August 4, 2009 at 9:01am
reblogged from makenosound
makenosound:


“The idea is that you don’t have to read an article. You can become an expert just by looking at it.”

Bygone Bureau interviews GOOD Magazine’s infographic designers.

It’s kind of odd reblogging something you wrote, but I am glad that this article is making its rounds online.

makenosound:

“The idea is that you don’t have to read an article. You can become an expert just by looking at it.”

Bygone Bureau interviews GOOD Magazine’s infographic designers.

It’s kind of odd reblogging something you wrote, but I am glad that this article is making its rounds online.

July 15, 2009 at 1:41pm

Guilty Ear →

An opinions piece for the Bureau on why there should be no such thing as a “guilty pleasure,” and kind of an excuse for me to write about Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

June 24, 2009 at 11:09am

“Disparate Phenomena”: An Interview with Bill Wasik →

A short interview I did for The Bygone Bureau with Bill Wasik, who I met up with on his Seattle stop of his book tour supporting And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture.

June 14, 2009 at 2:14am

Getting Over “Game Over”: How Indie Developers Are Making Games Into Art →

An article I wrote for the Bureau on the indie art games movement.

May 19, 2009 at 9:56am

Much Ado About Political Blogs →

An article I wrote for the Bureau that features bits from my thesis.

May 9, 2009 at 2:46pm

Reading "2666": The Part About the Crimes →

(Since this blog is supposed to be my ideal resume, I’ll be linking my published work from the Bureau.) This is from my series about Roberto Bolano’s novel 2666.