FEATURING VIET THANH NGUYEN – There is a profound irony in the fact that many of the US’s greatest contributors to art, culture, and innovation, are nonwhite immigrants and refugees. In Donald Trump’s bid to “Make America Great,” he pushes those very people to make better art, to enrich the nation’s culture with their resistance.
Among them is a writer whose work many have admired, Viet Thanh Nguyen is a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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