Viet Thanh Nguyen on THE COMMITTED
\u201c\u2026Cynical as he is of the world that he encounters, he's also pretty cynical and critical of himself. And that manifests itself in that sense of humor that you're talking about not a light-hearted sense of humor, but a very cynical and dark sense of humor, a sense of the absurd.\u201d\xa0Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\xa0The Sympathizer\xa0and\xa0The Committed\xa0(now out in paperback), among other books, joins us on the show to riff on the return of his unnamed narrator, why he followed his prize-winning spy thriller with a crime novel set in 1980s Paris, how his novels are in conversation with Ralph Ellison\u2019s\xa0Invisible Man, the American canon, his literary inspirations and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
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