Thought for the Day

For artists, looking, remembering, and creating art

are themselves ways of recognizing the ambiguities

of the human and inhuman.

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Quoted from Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016), p. 99.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer (for The Sympathizer); Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Nguyen's forthcoming book is a short story collection, The Refugees (Grove Press, February 2017). 

Grove Press Page for The Refugees

Grove Atlantic Press Page for The Sympathizer