Viet Thanh Nguyen: The TNB Self-Interview
Viet Thanh Nguyen interviews himself for The Nervous Breakdown’s fiction self-interview series. Testing, testing. I think it’s on. I love Vietnamese food. Just wanted to let you know. I do too. And Vietnam is a beautiful country. I agree. Glad to know we have some things in common. So tell us about […]
Debut Author Snapshot: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Goodreads. “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.” In his debut literary thriller, The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen introduces his complicated hero, known only as the Captain. A half-Vietnamese double agent and Communist sympathizer, the Captain is the trusted right-hand man of […]
The Career of Education – Tenure Anyone?
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Oanh Ly on his career in academia. Originally published in the Sept/Oct 2006 issue of Nhà Magazine. They say some things are lifelong pursuits like martial arts, parenting, traveling, building towards retirement or building a dream house. The same can be said of a life dedicated to academia. With a […]
