![]() ![]() Peter Breslow and Melissa Gray produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Its based on a debut novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for it. And so, you know, people can read it and be provoked, or be entertained, but they don't need footnotes in order to to get what I'm saying. 'The Sympathizer' is equal parts espionage thriller, love story, and sociopolitical commentary. But in the novel, I can get away with it - I hope. And if I were to say many of the same things I say in The Committed, I'd have to, like, have extensive footnotes to prove my point. ![]() The things he says are kind of obnoxious or kind of very critical, they might disrupt, you know, a nice casual cocktail party conversation and almost unacademic. He allows me to say things that I would find it difficult to say in person to other people. And in these novels, I just amplify that to a much greater and more dramatic and more interesting way through "the sympathizer." like a Vietnamese spying on Americans, like an American spying on Vietnamese. And, you know, I think he is, in many ways, an alter ego. ![]() I've been with him a long time, and it's hard to leave him. On whether his narrator is still with him ![]()
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