10/24 Talking Volumes with Viet Thanh Nguyen hosted by Kerri Miller
at The Fitzgerald Theater
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Professor and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was the special guest for Talking Volumes, hosted by award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller.
The show is recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater, and will air on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) and online at a later date. You can tune in on October 27 to hear the hour-long conversation with Nguyen and his unconventional memoir A Man of Two Faces.
Miller would bring up a couple of photos from Nguyen’s past to get the conversation going. For example, showing a photo of his parents’ store Saigon Moi, we got to hear how they were the first Vietnamese grocery store in San Jose. He said he never worked in the store, but would count the money as the “family accountant”.
There were two excerpt readings from his book, and immediately after the excerpt, we were treated with a song, sung by Filipina-American, singer-songwriter D’Lourdes. She played two demos, “Now and Then” and “Brings Me To Tears”. Miller had a brief chat with the singer, who was apparently experiencing “cold season.”
After the interview/conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen ended, they opened the floor for questions and answers. It seems there were a lot of Vietnamese/American fans in the audience, some waiting to ask their questions.
The most interesting one was about the upcoming HBO Max television show, The Sympathizer, based on Nguyen’s debut novel of the same name. The book had won numerous awards, including the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
According to Nguyen, they are filming in Thailand (since they weren’t allowed to film in Vietnam). The show will feature star Robert Downey Jr., but he promised that everyone else cast in the show are Vietnamese or Asian actors (Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Ky Duyen, and Sandra Oh).
The best part is that it’s co-showrun by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) and Don McKellar, and production is by my new favorite distributor/studio A24 (as I previously mentioned in 2022).
After the Q&A, fans lined up to get their books autographed.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new memoir A Man of Two Faces is out now on Grove Press.
The show is recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater, and will air on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) and online at a later date. You can tune in on October 27 to hear the hour-long conversation with Nguyen and his unconventional memoir A Man of Two Faces.
Miller would bring up a couple of photos from Nguyen’s past to get the conversation going. For example, showing a photo of his parents’ store Saigon Moi, we got to hear how they were the first Vietnamese grocery store in San Jose. He said he never worked in the store, but would count the money as the “family accountant”.
There were two excerpt readings from his book, and immediately after the excerpt, we were treated with a song, sung by Filipina-American, singer-songwriter D’Lourdes. She played two demos, “Now and Then” and “Brings Me To Tears”. Miller had a brief chat with the singer, who was apparently experiencing “cold season.”
After the interview/conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen ended, they opened the floor for questions and answers. It seems there were a lot of Vietnamese/American fans in the audience, some waiting to ask their questions.
The most interesting one was about the upcoming HBO Max television show, The Sympathizer, based on Nguyen’s debut novel of the same name. The book had won numerous awards, including the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
According to Nguyen, they are filming in Thailand (since they weren’t allowed to film in Vietnam). The show will feature star Robert Downey Jr., but he promised that everyone else cast in the show are Vietnamese or Asian actors (Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Ky Duyen, and Sandra Oh).
The best part is that it’s co-showrun by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) and Don McKellar, and production is by my new favorite distributor/studio A24 (as I previously mentioned in 2022).
After the Q&A, fans lined up to get their books autographed.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new memoir A Man of Two Faces is out now on Grove Press.
D’Lourdes with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Kerri Miller |
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Talking Volumes, with Viet Thanh Nguyen at The Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul |
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