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Articles for Viet Thanh Nguyen

‘The Sympathizer’ author reveals the ‘red line’ he wouldn’t let HBO series cross
6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘The Sympathizer’ author reveals the ‘red line’ he wouldn’t let HBO series cross

LA Times  

In the Emmy-season premiere of The Envelope video podcast, we sit down with Maya Erskine, star of Amazon Prime Video’s acclaimed reimagination of “Mr. Even with Donald, the way they’ve described working on “Atlanta,” they weren’t big budgets, so it always felt like students coming together to like make their project and make something happen. Olsen: Donald’s mother plays his …

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‘The Sympathizer’ depicts war from a Vietnamese point of view, but how does the community see it?
8 months ago

‘The Sympathizer’ depicts war from a Vietnamese point of view, but how does the community see it?

LA Times  

Hoa Xuande in the closing scenes of Episode 1 of “The Sympathizer.” The series and how it depicts the Vietnam War have been a topic of discussion in California’s Vietnamese community. Never before has a television series garnered so much excitement, attention and concern among California’s expatriate Vietnamese community, the world’s largest, as “The Sympathizer.” HBO’s seven-part espionage thriller depicting …

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All Wars Are Fought Twice (2022) : Throughline
1 year, 5 months ago

All Wars Are Fought Twice (2022) : Throughline

NPR  

All Wars Are Fought Twice Enlarge this image toggle caption Nik Wheeler/CORBIS Nik Wheeler/CORBIS "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the …

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A reading guide on the Asian American experience from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and more
3 years, 8 months ago

A reading guide on the Asian American experience from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and more

LA Times  

On the Shelf An Asian-American reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Suggestions come from Times staff; novelists including Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and Steph Cha; poet Victoria Chang; and a group of scholars from Asian American Studies departments in California and beyond. …

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Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss ‘The Committed’ at the L.A. Times Book Club
3 years, 9 months ago

Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss ‘The Committed’ at the L.A. Times Book Club

LA Times  

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen joined the Los Angeles Times Book Club to discuss “The Committed,” the sequel to his 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Sympathizer.” Nguyen was in conversation March 10 with Times columnist Carolina A. Miranda. Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced his unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los …

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on his ‘Sympathizer’ sequel and the ‘scarcity’ of voices like his
4 years, 1 month ago

Viet Thanh Nguyen on his ‘Sympathizer’ sequel and the ‘scarcity’ of voices like his

LA Times  

Viet Thanh Nguyen had no intention of writing a sequel to “The Sympathizer,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a French-Vietnamese undercover agent working for Communist forces during the end of the Vietnam War. During the virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, Nguyen and his 7-year-old son, Ellison, joined Caldecott Medal winner Thi Bui and her 13-year-old son, …

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