
Belonging Is a Complicated Thing: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
JENNIFER ACKER speaks with VIET THANH NGUYEN Viet Thanh Nguyen visited Amherst College in February 2022 in the joint roles of Presidential Scholar and LitFest headliner. In his live conversation with The Common’s editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker, he deployed humor and refreshing honesty to discuss his path to publishing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer and its best-selling sequel The Committed. The… (read more)