![]() GROSS: The war in Vietnam was central to your whole family's story. And they had no idea that he was a communist spy who had studied in the United States. And he was friends with people like David Halberstam and all the important American journalists. And then the other inspiration for that was that there really were spies in South Vietnam that rose to the very highest ranks of the South Vietnamese bureaucracy and military.Īnd there was a very famous spy named Pham Xuan An who was so important that during his time as a mole he was promoted to a major general by the North Vietnamese. VIET THANH NGUYEN: Well, when my agent told me I should write a novel, the first thing that came to me was a spy novel and partly it was because it's a genre that I really enjoy and I wanted to write a novel that was actually entertaining, that people would actually want to read because I knew that I would also be dealing with a lot of very serious political and literary matters. Why did you want to write this novel from the point of view of a spy? He is now a professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. When the South fell to the North in 1975, the family fled to America. With the North under communist control, his parents fled to the South. Viet Thanh Nguyen's parents grew up in the north of Vietnam when the country was divided in the mid-1950s. My guest tells part of his own story in an essay at the back of the book. His father was a French colonialist in Vietnam. The character's mother grew up in the north of Vietnam. That sympathy is in part a function of his own divided self. It appears that part of his crime is sympathizing with the suffering on both sides. His novel, "The Sympathizer," is set during and just after the war in Vietnam and is told in the form of a forced confession written by a spy for the North Vietnamese who worked undercover as an aid to a South Vietnamese general. My guest is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Viet Thanh Nguyen. ![]() An additional spin-off style movie was announced for the character Sandy Cheeks in May 2021.This is FRESH AIR. An additional spin-off, an untitled project based on the character Squidward Tentacles, is in development as of 2020. Two spin-off series, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show, premiered in 2021. The series has inspired three feature films: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Sponge Out of Water (2015), and Sponge on the Run (2020). The thirteenth season began airing in October 2020. It has received worldwide critical acclaim since its premiere and had gained enormous popularity by its second season. The series officially premiered on July 17, 1999. Nickelodeon held a preview for the series in the United States on May 1, 1999, after it aired the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. Puff and her boating school, so that SpongeBob could attend school as an adult. ![]() He was prepared to "walk out" on Nickelodeon and abandon the series, but he compromised by creating Mrs. The network's executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character. He began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series in 1996, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational book that Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon as well as the most profitable property for ViacomCBS Consumer Products, having generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019. Being the fifth-longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. ![]()
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