Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of the world’s most celebrated writers. He won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” a satirical, metafictional espionage thriller set in the final days of the Vietnam War. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” among many other accolades. On this week’s episode, he talks to Logan about the Vietnam War, contemporary politics and what it’s like to be a politically committed writer today.

Nguyen will be coming to the Santa Fe International Literary Festival on May 17 to discuss his recently published essay collection, “To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.”

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