Phong Bui: Culture-Maker — The Brooklyn Rail, Social Energy, and Slowness of Culture
Phong Bui has spent decades turning culture into a social act—bringing artists, writers, thinkers, and people from very different worlds into the same conversation. In this episode of The Russi Hive, Alejandra talks with Bui about the life and philosophy behind The Brooklyn Rail, which he describes as a living organism: something to be nurtured, protected, kept free, and never allowed to harden into bureaucracy.
The interview moves from Bui’s childhood in Vietnam and his arrival in the United States as a refugee in 1980 to the artistic and intellectual communities that shaped him in New York…
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