When he was arguing the case of an alleged Maoist rebel sympathizer, I could barely hear him during the trial; he was so soft spoken.
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Before The Sympathizer, I was focused mostly on trying to figure out how a short story worked.
Q. Have you ever been a Communist sympathizer? A. I am not sure that I would be able to say what you mean by the word "sympathizer".
He is not a religious man; he is a former Marxist sympathizer, and I expected his analysis to be more sophisticated than that of his fundamentalist constituents.
As Nguyen has recounted, in an afterword to his début novel, "The Sympathizer" (2015), "I watched 'Apocalypse Now' and saw American sailors massacre a sampan full of civilians and Martin Sheen shoot a wounded woman in cold blood.
"I've got a couple of Republican sympathizers in the bunch who were embarrassed to see the name Zirkel in the newspapers in the same sentence as 'antiwar protester.' " He and the kids agree to disagree on this.
Not only did it break all of Gaza's lax zoning laws, but its owner was known to be a Hamas sympathizer: each day I have been afraid that it could be one of Israel's bombing targets.
Hitler, it seemed, had sympathizers in Pleasantville.
Very funny indeed... Loraine Wilson, Washington, DC: Wow, though not a sympathizer of Mr. Brooks' ideology, I usually enjoy his columns.
I immediately went to a meeting with other resisters, and some sympathizers let me stay at their house where I slept harder than I ever remember sleeping.
