![]() ![]() A second volume in that series has just been published called The Committed. ![]() He is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer. ![]() And today I have the honor and pleasure to be talking to Viet Thanh Nguyen. Michael Silverblatt: From KCRW and, I’m Michael Silverblatt and this is Bookworm. Speaker 1: Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannan foundation. Listen to the interview at KCRW or read the transcript below. A novel you’re not born knowing how to read, and you might have to reread it, this is exciting contemporary literature. A novel of ideas and politics and history and theory, but also a crime novel. This is duality enacted as a writing method this is a union between theory and fiction. It brings Nguyen’s storytelling further into the philosophy of refugees, feminism, communism, anti-communism and more-the terror of both the American war in Vietnam and the French presence in Vietnam, along with the Vietnamese presence in America andFrance. Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, “The Committed,” the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer,” and the second entry in a planned trilogy. ![]() Michael Silverblatt speaks to Viet Thanh Nguyen about his new book The Committed and the literary inspirations behind it for Bookworm. ![]()
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