Franti asked Viet Thanh Nguyen:

Reading in "the sympathizer" your (inspiring) pages on film-making and the americanization of the world through hollywood blockbusters I could not help to wonder if they were underscored by the zizekian mantra of ideology conveyed through filmography? Greetings from Brussels.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Zizek and many other scholars of ideology, spectacle, and representation were important--Althusser, Gramsci, DeBord, Trinh T. Minh-ha, to name a few.

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Hi Anh Thanh, as a fellow Vietnamese, I can't help but wonder when you wrote your memoir A man of two faces, did you have in your mind a Vietnamese pronoun for the character "You" that you addressed yourself with? Was it a formal like "anh", "bạn", or was it informal as in "cậu", or "mày"?

Melissa asked Viet Thanh Nguyen:

Congratulations, professor :) I am Vietnamese-American and honestly have very mixed-up feelings about how much attention we should pay to race and the stories of where we came from. But it is so great to see someone like you winning a Pulitzer. I will definitely be reading your book! ?

A Goodreads user asked Viet Thanh Nguyen:

This is the first time I've heard about your book. I like it because of the Multicultural angle. I've read about Lowell, Massachusett's manufacturing period. Why did you choose to write about Lowell, Mass. ? Is there a large Vietnamese community living there?

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Reading in "the sympathizer" your (inspiring) pages on film-making and the americanization of the world through hollywood blockbusters I could not help to wonder if they were underscored by the zizekian mantra of ideology conveyed through filmography? Greetings from Brussels.

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Hi Anh Thanh, as a fellow Vietnamese, I can't help but wonder when you wrote your memoir A man of two faces, did you have in your mind a Vietnamese pronoun for the character "You" that you addressed yourself with? Was it a formal like "anh", "bạn", or was it informal as in "cậu", or "mày"?

Congratulations, professor :) I am Vietnamese-American and honestly have very mixed-up feelings about how much attention we should pay to race and the stories of where we came from. But it is so great to see someone like you winning a Pulitzer. I will definitely be reading your book! ?

This is the first time I've heard about your book. I like it because of the Multicultural angle. I've read about Lowell, Massachusett's manufacturing period. Why did you choose to write about Lowell, Mass. ? Is there a large Vietnamese community living there?

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