Guest: Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese- American author. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He is the author of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize The Sympathizer. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees, the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. His latest fiction is The Committed.