LA Times Podcast “Asian Enough” with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a guest on Asian Enough, a new LA Times podcast about being Asian American — the joys, the complications and…(read more)
Interviews
The Spirit of Community and Collaboration
Zoë Ruiz interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ellison Nguyen, Thi Bui, and Hien Bui-Stafford about the collaboration needed for Chicken in the Sea for The…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen with musical guest Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Reza Aslan about his life and the sequel to The Sympathizer on Rough Draft with Reza Aslan. 2016 Pulitzer…(read more)
Literary LA: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Tom Lutz
Tom Lutz interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his life and how that has influenced his writing and world-view for this episode of LARB Radio…(read more)
“Chicken of the Sea”: A Multigenerational Collaboration
Melat Ermyas covers the reading of Chicken of the Sea at Elliot Bay Book Company and how Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to his son…(read more)
‘Chicken Of The Sea’ Is So Wacky — Of Course It Was Created By Kids
Samantha Balaban writes about an interview Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ellison Nguyen, and illustrators, Thi Bui and Hien Bui-Stafford had with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the…(read more)
Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight
John O’Rourke interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for BU Today about his life, writing, and the choice to be called a refugee. “I am a…(read more)
McSweeney’s Books- AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS OF OUR NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK, CHICKEN OF THE SEA
In an interview for McSweeney’s, co-authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son Ellison Nguyen, alongside co-illustrators Thi Bui and her son Hien Bui-Stafford, talk about…(read more)
Chicken? Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thi Bui’s New Multigenerational Collaboration
Elizabeth Bird for School Library Journal delves into the making of Chicken of the Sea, why sometimes it’s best to encourage creativity in your…(read more)
Unsettling the American Dream Story: The Millions Interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jianan Qian interviews Viet Nguyen for The Millions. They discuss the aesthetics and politics of The Sympathizer; how his literary education has nourished his…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen Interviewed by Michael Collier
Hosted on The Asian American Literary Review, in an interview with Michael Collier, Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his short story collection, The Refugees.…(read more)
Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen and others speak about refugee crises on C-SPAN
Viet Nguyen (Author of The Sympathizer), Asli Ü. Bâli (Professor of Law at UCLA), and Makeda Best (Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the…(read more)
Watch “Past to Present: The Echoes of War,” Viet Thanh Nguyen and others speak about war and history at the 2016 LA Times Book Festival
Viet Nguyen (USC Professor and author of The Sympathizer), Rita Gabis (Poet and author of A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet), and Dawn Anahid…(read more)
Empathy, Pain, and Power in Literature: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Emily Cordo interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about historicizing trauma and the relationship between a writer, their character, and their reader for Porter House Review.…(read more)
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks Asian representation, life after a Pulitzer
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Rappler about Asian representation in literature. The latest iteration of the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival by National Bookstore…(read more)
Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen finally visits PH, ‘the country I most wanted to visit
Philippine Daily Inquirer writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s relationship with the Philippines, The Sympathizer, and writing for identity. The extraordinarily eloquent Vietnamese-American author had…(read more)
