“And so here it is, with perfect timing, a political novel that anyone who is part of a colonising or colonised nation – and that includes, of course, America – should read.” Continue reading The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen review – challenging colonialism
An interview with Pulitzer Prize winning USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. Continue reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” Is a Spy Thriller Where the Real Enemy Is Colonialism
The Italian Party & Christina Lynch at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us as Christina Lynch presents and signs The Italian Party. One of the Wall Street Journal’s “Six Books to Read This Winter,” this is a delicious and sharply funny page-turner about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena. This novel is half-glamorous fun, half an examination of America’s role in the world, and a smart pleasure.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/christina-lynch-discusses-and-signs-italian-party
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The novelist seemed to go from unknown to MacArthur genius in two years. In truth, it took decades.
by Joe Fassler
From: Electric Literature
This month, the novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded one of the most prestigious honors a writer can receive: the MacArthur “genius” grant, given to artists, thinkers, and public intellectuals whose ideas have culture-altering potential. This, in itself, should surprise no one. Nguyen writes with arresting moral and intellectual force, often about people scarred and uprooted by conflict. As the MacArthur Foundation put it in its citation, Nguyen’s demonstrated a unique gift for exploring how depictions of the Vietnam War “often fail to capture the full humanity and inhumanity, the sacrifices and savagery, of participants on opposing sides.”
Continue reading “The Secret to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Overnight Success”
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