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History, Identity, Politics, and the Art of Writing: A Lecture with VIET THANH NGUYEN
February 8, 2018 | 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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What are the challenges for writers concerned with history, identity, and politics? How do writers respond to these themes in language, form, story, and theme?
In this lecture, VIET THANH NGUYEN offers some answers through an exploration of his writing and criticism. His remarks will be followed by a discussion with writer GISH JEN. Register online.
VIET THANH NGUYEN is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Grove/Atlantic published his novel The Sympathizer in 2015 (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize), and will publish his short story collection The Refugees in 2017. He also wrote Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.