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\"\"Presented in association with Rice University President\u2019s Lecture Series and Vietnam: The Houston Connection<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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The on-stage interview will be conducted by\u00a0William Broyles.\u00a0<\/B><\/STRONG>Houston native William Broyles is the founding editor of Texas Monthly<\/EM>, an Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, and the author of Brothers In Arms<\/EM>, an account of his return to Vietnam to meet the men and women he fought against during the war.\u00a0<\/B><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\"\"A live stream of this reading, in partnership with Houston Public Media, will be available on Inprint\u2019s website here<\/A> and houstonpublicmedia.org\/inprint.<\/STRONG><\/P>
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For a map and parking instructions at Stude Concert Hall\u00a0click here<\/A>.\u00a0<\/STRONG><\/P>
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VIET THANH NGUYEN\u2019s debut novel The Sympathizer<\/EM>\u00a0garnered international praise, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, and was named to more than 30 best books of the year lists. The Washington Post<\/EM> calls the novel \u201cextraordinary\u2026. surely a new classic of war fiction,\u201d and Alice Walker writes, \u201cIf you are an American, of any culture or color, you will benefit from reading this book which offers, in exquisite thought and phrase, the multi-layered experience of a war most Americans have blotted out of consciousness, suppressed, or willfully ignored. I\u2019ve been waiting to read this book for decades.\u201d The Refugees<\/EM>, Nguyen\u2019s bestselling story collection, was a New York Times<\/EM> Editor\u2019s Choice, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and an Indie Next Selection. Joyce Carol Oates in The<\/EM> New Yorker<\/EM> says the collection is \u201cabout people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country\u2026. Nguyen [is] one of our great chroniclers of displacement.\u201d His nonfiction book N<\/EM>othing Ever Dies: Vietnam and The Memory of War<\/EM>\u00a0was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He serves as cultural critic-at-large for\u00a0the Los Angeles Times<\/EM> and is co-editor of the book Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field<\/EM>. Nguyen came to the United States as a refugee from the Vietnam War with his family in 1975.<\/P>
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Reading and on-stage interview followed by book sale and signing.

\nTo order books by Viet Thanh Nguyen at a discount\u00a0click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.

\nTo submit questions for Viet Thanh Nguyen click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.

\nTo learn more about the 2017\/2018 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series\u00a0click here<\/A><\/STRONG>.<\/P>
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LINKS:<\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cViet Thanh Nguyen: In praise of doubt and uselessness,\u201d Los Angeles Times<\/EM>, April 14, 2017.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cPulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen \u2018Never Stopped Being a Refugee,\u2019\u201d by Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, Mother Jones<\/EM>, Jan-Feb 2017.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times Book Review,<\/EM> April 2, 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