Norton Lecture 2 – To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture 2: On Speaking as an Other

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist; University Professor, University of Southern California; Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient; editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Interlocutor: Laila Lalami, author; winner of the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for The Moor's Account

Introduction: Glenda Carpio, Chair of the Department of English, Harvard College Professor, and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University

Norton Lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets are required.