Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Jay Kang about ethnic studies, the Third World Liberation, and Asian American identity on the Time to Say Goodbye podcast. We’re very excited to have Pulitzer Prize winner and Macarthur Genius Grant recipient Viet Thanh Nguyen on the show. There was a lot to discuss and a lengthy conversation that… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen interviews Phuc Tran on writing, tattooing, and being a weirdo for Electric Lit. I love alternate takes and extended scenes on DVDs. …(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Pankai Mishra share a conversation regarding Black Lives Matter, the Harper’s letter, and more for the Guardian. Pankaj Mishra: Black…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Susan Straight, and Luis Alfaro join Sandra Tsing Loh in conversation about books and the literary life for the Southern California…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Boston Public Radio on air to talk about the portrayal of Vietnamese people in Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods.’ In…(read more)
The Bay Area Book Festival held a virtual panel featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen about putting words to complicated emotions and situations. This event is…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins JinJa Birkenbeuel on The Honest Field Guide to talk about entrepreneurship and American racism. The impact of entrepreneurship on the…(read more)
Longyan Zhang interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about war, the ethnics of memory, and identity for Consequence Magazine. (Renmin University of China, University of Southern…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen virtually joins San Jose Public Library for a discussion about The Refugees. The Yiddish Book Center presents “Coming to America,” a…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes to talk about the cultural impacts of social distancing. On episode 052 of The…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Randy Kim on The Banh Mi Chronicles to talk about the Asian Pacific Islander community during COVID-19 and more. For…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Michael Vann on New Books in History to discuss Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. According to Viet…(read more)
Rise APA held a conversation featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen about the state of Asian America in the face of COVID-19. Why we feel this…(read more)
Viet and his son Ellison and Thi Bui and her son Hien discuss their collaboration, the children’s book Chicken of the Sea. Viet Thanh…(read more)
An-My Lê and Viet Thanh Nguyen share a conversation about An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain, a photography exhibit about the complexity of war. The…(read more)
PBS spotlights Viet Thanh Nguyen as one of eight AAPI artists who explore culture and history in their craft. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh…(read more)
Catch Viet at one of these appearances in the coming months and say hello! He will be presenting on his academic work or, at the literary events, reading from and talking about his most recent books: the novel The Sympathizer (2015), the cultural history Nothing Ever Dies (2016), the short story collection The Refugees (2017), and the children’s… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins the Pulitzer Prize board as its first Vietnamese-American member. A big congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is joining the Pulitzer Prize Board as its first Asian-American and Vietnamese-American member. After an extensive nominating process, the board chooses the winners from a list of finalists in each category and may additionally give a… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen gives a keynote speech at the “Transcendients Community Celebration: Challenging Borders” for the Japanese American Nation Museum The Transcendients Community Celebration: Challenging Borders, a free one-day event, kicks off on Saturday, March 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. The community celebration offers music, dance, art, speaker series,… (read more)
