133--Bookin' w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen

<p>This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of T<a href='https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780802124944'>he Sympathizer</a>, and most recently, <a href='https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780802157065'>The Committed</a>, which is published by our friends at Grove Press.  Topics of discussion include what it means to be American in 2021, mutants, Hollywood propaganda and Vietnam, how America is like Coca-Cola, tie-dyed t-shirts, whether belief in Capitalism or Communism necessitates extremism, blood oaths, colonization, and much more.  Copies of <a href='https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780802157065'>The Committed</a> can be ordered <a href='https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780802157065'>here</a> with FREE SHIPPING for members of <a href='https://www.quailridgebooks.com/readersclub'>Readers Club+</a>. </p>