Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Ghosts

In this profile at New Republic, Josephine Livingstone talks with Viet Thanh Nguyen (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer) about the ghosts that inhabit his life, his writing, and his birthplace in Vietnam.

Source: New Republic
Published: Jul 25, 2017
Length: 6 minutes (1,516 words)

Speaking in Tongues

On J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and the art of invented languages.

Published: Oct 8, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,637 words)