{"id":14826,"date":"2024-03-17T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:08:45","slug":"opb-the-archive-project-viet-thanh-nguyen-in-conversation-with-tommy-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2024\/opb-the-archive-project-viet-thanh-nguyen-in-conversation-with-tommy-orange","title":{"rendered":"OPB | The Archive Project – Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with Tommy Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this episode of \u201cThe Archive Project,\u201d we feature Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with author Tommy Orange from the 2023 Portland Book Festival\u2014OPB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author, Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Listen to the podcast here<\/a>. Transcriptions coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this episode of \u201cThe Archive Project,\u201d we feature Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with author Tommy Orange from the 2023 Portland Book Festival. Viet Than Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for his debut novel \u201cThe Sympathizer,\u201d which sold more than one million copies worldwide, catapulted him to national fame. Since then, Nguyen has gone on to publish two more books of fiction, and a work of nonfiction, \u201cNothing Ever dies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He joined us for the Festival on the occasion of the publication of his debut memoir \u201cA Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial.\u201d He was joined on stage by novelist Tommy Orange, who wrote the celebrated novel \u201cThere, There.\u201d The two dive into a discussion about Nguyen\u2019s new book, which is formally inventive and unusual in the sense it\u2019s a mix of history, personal memoir, and a biography of his parents\u2013telling an intergenerational story of a family\u2019s forced migration from Vietnam to the United States and the deeply personal impacts this journey. With a wry and ironic sense of humor, Nguyen offers us a tender view into his family\u2019s history; the truth, ironies, and lies behind the so-called American Dream; and how he has come to understand his role as a writer at this specific moment in American life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/strong> was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of \u201cThe Committed,\u201d which continues the story of \u201cThe Sympathizer,\u201d awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection \u201cThe Refugees;\u201d the nonfiction books \u201cNothing Ever Dies,\u201d a finalist for the National Book Award, and his memoir \u201cA Man of Two Faces.\u201d He is also the editor of an anthology of refugee writing \u201cThe Displaced.\u201d He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tommy Orange<\/strong> is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California.\u202fHis first book,\u202f\u201cThere There,\u201d was a finalist for the\u202f2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019\u202fAmerican Book Award. He lives in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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