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Episode: Viet Thanh Nguyen: Defiant storytellers and scholars of memory
Description: Growing up an immigrant in the U.S., writer Viet Thanh Nguyen tried to make sense of the Vietnamese story. "There were these two very different versions of history and memory that were going around, and I was growing up very confused about what the actual history was," he tells Niala Boodhoo. That set him on a path to become a scholar and a writer about the past. The author of The Sympathizer on why we need "defiant storytellers" and "scholars of memory" now.Guests: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Sympathizer" now also a...