Public Books Archives - Viet Thanh Nguyen

MONTHLY ARCHIVES : September, 2018

“REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING”: AN INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN

Posted on September 25, 2018 | Leave a comment

Karl Ashoka Britto interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and personal experiences as a refugee for Public Books. Since the 2015 publication of…(read more)

The Afterlife of Agent Orange

Posted on October 1, 2017 | Leave a comment

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by Public Books. “All wars…(read more)

American Storyteller

Posted on June 26, 2017 | Leave a comment

Eric Bennett of Public Books writes about Viet Nguyen’s The Refugees, alongside musings on other authors and their work(s), including Ottessa Moshfegh, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Junot Díaz, Roxane…(read more)

The Stranger’s Voice

Posted on August 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

Karl Ashoka Britto reviews The Sympathizer for Public Books. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s riveting debut novel, is a chronicle of war wrapped in a…(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