
John Mannheimer first fell in love with stupendously badly designed T-shirts while he was living in Vietnam.
The 28-year-old Los Angeles–based writer, who self-published a 2015 sci-fi novel called The Teleporter, moved to Hanoi, Vietnam in 2019. There he worked as an “essay consultant” for Vietnamese high schoolers looking to apply to U.S. colleges. (In reality, he was writing large parts of the essays for them.)