Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy Book Tour

What does it mean to be an other? To speak for others? To find joy in our otherness?

These are some of the questions at the heart of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s forthcoming book, To Save and to Destroy—a collection of essays delivered originally at @harvard’s prestigious Norton Lectures.

Join Nguyen on tour this spring to hear him address these questions and more.

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s spring book tour includes conversations with artists, writers, and scholars, such as Shawn Wong, Soleil Ho, Hua Hsu, Lois Leveen, and Jean Ho, and stops at Powell’s Books, the Center for Fiction, the LA Times Book Festival, and more. Check out the schedule below.
April 6, 2025 | Santa Ana, CA
Bowers Museum (VAALA Viet Book Fest)

April 8, 2025 | Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Public Library—in conversation with Jean Ho

April 10, 2025 | Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley Public Library (Book Passage)—in conversation with Soleil Ho

April 26, 2025 | San Francisco, CA
DVAN 50th Anniversary Celebration of Vietnam War Ending—in conversation with An-My Lê

April 27, 2025 | Los Angeles, CA
LA Times Book Festival

May 1, 2025 | Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction—in conversation with Hua Hsu

May 2, 2025 | New York, NY
Rizzoli Bookstore

May 6, 2025 | Portland, OR
Powell’s Books—in conversation with Lois Leveen

May 7, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library (Elliot Bay Books)—in conversation with Shawn Wong

May 17 | Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe International Literary Festival

May 30, 2025 | Boston, MA
The WBUR Festival

May 31, 2025 | Berkeley, CA
Bay Area Book Festival Keynote

Learn More At The Harvard Press