Maclean's Archives - Viet Thanh Nguyen

MONTHLY ARCHIVES : February, 2017

Q&A: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the ghosts that haunt refugees

Posted on February 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

Brian Bethune interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for Maclean’s. One of the Vietnamese boat people, the author arrived in the U.S. when he was four, and…(read more)

In Vietnam, forgetting the ‘American war’

Posted on April 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

Brian Bethune reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War for Maclean’s. Memory is much on our minds now in regard to…(read more)

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HBO Max | Official Teaser Release of “The Sympathizer”

Here’s the first look at THE SYMPATHIZER! An amazing teaser trailer with Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Ky Duyen, Sandra Oh, and Robert Downey Jr. You might want to go on YouTube and look at the trailer in horizontal mode, the way it will look on TV…it’s even better.

Los Angeles Times | The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction—The 16 Best Literary Fiction Books about L.A.

“For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres.” Based on 95 responses, Boris Kachka, Carolyn Kellogg, David Kipen, and David L. Ulin presents the 16 most essential L.A. literary novels, such as “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh… (read more)

Writers at Rutgers Presents Viet Thanh Nguyen

Location: Multipurpose Room, College Avenue Student Center Writers at Rutgers is an exchange between well-known writers of diverse backgrounds and the Rutgers students and faculty. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for… (read more)

Contact Info

Viet Thanh Nguyen
404D Taper Hall
Department of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
Email

For review copies or bookstore events, contact publicity@groveatlantic.com for The Sympathizer or The Refugees and Margaux Leonard of Harvard University Press for Nothing Ever Dies

Literary, translation, and film rights are handled by Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates, 146 East 19 Street New York, New York 10003, (212) 420-8585

To invite Viet to do a reading or lecture, please contact Kevin Mills of the Tuesday Agency, 132 1/2 East Washington Iowa City, Iowa 52240, (319) 338-5640 or kevin@tuesdayagency.com