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Viet Thanh Nguyen on History and Memory

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his new book (Live 3/15)

“We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves,” reads Washington Post’s Robin Givhan from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest novel, The Committed (Grove Press, 2021), in this conversation with the Pulitzer Prize–winning author on how history and memory have shaped his life and writing. 

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