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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Viet Thanh Nguyen on History, War Movies, Race, Refugees, Vietnam, and the Need for Political Literature

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 419, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Viet’s next book is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, forthcoming in October 2023 from Grove Press. Air date: June 22, 2016. *** A SPECIAL OFFER for Otherppl listeners! Use the offer code SUMMERSCHOOL and get 10% off of all summer writing workshops at https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/education *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the program.

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This is The Other People Show.

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I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles.

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Thank you for listening.

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I have a great episode for you today. I have another flashback. It's Friday. I have been doing flashback episodes on Fridays for the past several weeks and the tradition continues today with an outtake from episode 419, my conversation with Vietan Wynne.

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