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work_ysiv4cppajel7a5m73hyspnnjm	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The VISITORS' CORNER with Viet Thanh Nguyen	2020	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6082	360	70	Adriane Lentz-Smith interviewed the celebrated author, who shared his thoughts about the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, the past and the present, and the ways in which narratives shape our sense of what was, what is, and what might be. "I'm going to do exactly what I want to do, which is write fiction." I wrote short stories. We've been talking implicitly about categories, fiction, nonfiction, academia, creative writing or whatever you want to call it. required me, in the case of the war that I was interested in, to go into the past and to write a history. The reason why I wanted to write a war novel is because, as someone who is a refugee from So with the Vietnam War, I think that the fact that there are people As for anti-models, in general, I think a lot of American fiction about war, as I said, takes up As a Vietnamese-American writer, I write in	./cache/work_ysiv4cppajel7a5m73hyspnnjm.pdf	./txt/work_ysiv4cppajel7a5m73hyspnnjm.txt