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An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publish Date
November 19, 2017
Interviewees
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Interviewers
Angela Naimou
,
Michael LeMahieu
Publisher
Contemporary Literature
Topics
academic writing
analogies in storytelling
cultural memory
fiction writing
identity in literature
literary allusions
literary influences
marketing in publishing
refugee experience
Vietnam War
writing process
People Mentioned
Bảo Ninh
Haruki Murakami
James Baldwin
Jhumpa Lahiri
Judith Butler
Junot Díaz
Muhammad Ali
Philip Roth
Rebecca Walkowitz
Works Mentioned
A Tale of Two Cities
Beloved
Gone With the Wind
Interpreter of Maladies
Invisible Man
Midnight's Children
Nothing Ever Dies
Portnoy's Complaint
Race and Resistance
The Refugees
The Sorrow of War
The Sympathizer
Places Mentioned
University of Southern California
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