S2 - Episode 6

Winner of both a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Viet Thanh Nguyen is a modern-day Tocqueville. He arrived in America as a four-year-old refugee after the 1975 fall of Saigon and has gone on to become one of our nation’s most distinguished novelists and academics. His visceral and unsparing observations about his adopted country are what earned him the New Yorker magazine’s accolade as “a conscience of American literature.”  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, The Sympathizer (recently adapted as a critically acclaimed HBO mini-series co-starring Robert Downey, Jr.), Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen honors us with a candidly personal interview on this unique and timely episode of The Thread.