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)
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a fellow panelist in a Q&A with Ham Tran about his feature film Journey From The Fall Q&A with Director…(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)
The Center for Asian American Media hosted a digital town hall, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, exploring Asian American history and the Asian American experience…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai in a conversation about her debut book for Harvard Bookstore Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen held an AMA on Reddit. Read the discussion thread and questions below or on Reddit. THANKS EVERYONE!!! I loved answering your…(read more)
WSJ asked Viet Thanh Nguyen for recommendations from his current reading list. Ready to climb your literary Mount Everest? We polled some of the…(read more)
ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Company) book club covers Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed in an episode about how the Vietnamese diaspora responds to war. Vietnam, diasporas, and the aftermath of war in this month’s edition of The Book Club. BOOKS Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, Corsair Nam Le, The Boat, Penguin GUESTS Assoc Prof Nathalie Nguyen,… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will share insights on The Committed for LA Times‘ March Bookclub event. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced us to the “man of two faces and two minds,” a double agent living in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon. Nguyen’s anonymous spy returns this week in “The Committed,” with a new life and adventures… (read more)
In this profile by Alexandra Alter for the New York Times, Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on memory and what that means for his narrator in The Committed. In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from… (read more)
