I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Hi NAME,
I’m sorry, I won’t be able to do this. I’ve resigned from academia.
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One of the most satisfying sentences to write, which I’ve written a couple of times now.
I had a hard time saying no as an academic, which was one of the reasons I had to quit.
I wrote about Delaney Hall, the ICE concentration camp where imprisoned immigrants are staging a work and hunger strike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A snapshot of the feelings the Vietnamese community has for me. Thanks, Mai Nguyen! Meanwhile, Hoàng Nha previously called me an "uneducated scoundrel," but I like "naturally rude and uncultivated" as well.
This Wednesday in San Luis Obispo.
Anybody here in Georgia? I'll be there from June 8-10 at the ZEG Storytelling Festival. I am excited about my visit--followed by a few days in Yerevan, Armenia, another place I am very much looking forward to, after having become friends with many Armenian Americans.
www.zegfest.com
(but I do encourage you to read the other one hundred very fine stories as well, listed in the back).
I got to edit Best American Short Stories 2026. Much thanks to series editor @nicole.a.lamy, who read thousands of stories before giving me one hundred and twenty of them. From those, I chose this list of twenty exceptional stories. Available now from @marinerbooks.
My latest for @zeteo.com on Trump's imperial war on Iran, and how it's connected to the American war in Viet Nam, Israel's war on Lebanon, and the shared American and Israeli belief in air power, bombing, and asymmetrical warfare, as deployed against those seen as less than human.
