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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Jul 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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The Vietnamese-American author spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2016, shortly after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his ambitious, disturbing and darkly comic novel, The Sympathizer.
Released:
Jul 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit: WARNING: This discussion deals with suicide. Sigrid Nunez's eighth title, The Friend, won the 2018 U.S. National Book Award. Hailed as "a subtle, unassuming masterpiece," it follows a woman grieving the death of her friend as she cares for his 180-pound Great Dane. Nunez followed it with What Are You Going Through, which was named a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020. Her new novel, The Vulnerables, takes place during the early days of Covid lockdown. *This interview originally aired on May 30, 2021. by Writers and Company