Featured in AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2025, Ocean Vuong shares snippets by some of his favourite writers, thinkers and photographers.
“These writers, thinkers and photographers have, in more ways than one, bolstered, enlightened and reaffirmed my faith in my own work through the years. Because, let’s face it, creative work does require some form of faith. It is a tumultuous thing to launch an idea into a vast nothingness and hope that it makes a light bright enough to be found by others. Luckily, these luminaries were my light, and I hope they may become yours as well, and – more so – that these snippets lead you to more of their work. They have been my bonfires through the dark across the years.” – Ocean Vuong
Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz
“If one were to find a thesis for David’s work, as impossible as that project may seem, this line might come closest. The brutal acknowledgement of an unjust and scathing world against the supreme possibility the imagination affords those at the brink and those who do not yet know they’re at the brink.” – OV
Hell is a place on Earth.
Heaven is a place in your head.
Excerpt from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, first published by Vintage Books in 1991