The Guardian Live: In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, The Committed, with Nikesh Shukla for the Guardian Live. Read transcript below. Nikesh Shukla:I’m Nikesh Shukla. I am an author. I am the editor of The Good Immigrant and the author of the recent memoir, Brown Baby. I am going to be your co-pilot, host. I’m going to […]
Roxane Gay and Viet Thanh Nguyen at St. Paul’s Church
Viet Thanh Nguyen (author of The Refugees) and Roxane Gay (author of Difficult Women) discuss their latest books for an event with Politics & Prose Bookstore. If Roxane Gay’s strong-willed female characters are “difficult,” it’s because they want things to “make sense” but are involved in relationships that don’t. They’ve had parents who walked out. […]
C-SPAN: Views of Refugees in America Panel
On August 6, 2016, Viet Thanh Nguyen joined panelists to discuss U.S. views on and treatment of refugees. The full recording of the panel can be seen here on C-SPAN. Held at the Skylight Studios of the Annenberg Center for Photography in Los Angeles, photographs of refugee communities in recent decades were shown and the panelists […]
