Tracy Slater
Nonfiction writer; B&N Discover Great New Writers Pick; New book: Together in Manzanar: The True story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp; Work in NYT, WashPo, WSJ + more; www.tracyslater.com
- Historians of the US WWII Japanese American incarceration and of American concentration camps, there's a new podcast coming that promises to be really insightful.
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- @draftingthepast.bsky.social, @bradlisti.bsky.social, @jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social, @kathmschmidt.bsky.social -- wondering if you've got any good examples from your previous guests or clients?
- Extra points for examples of books that do this particularly well! #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️
- Extra points for examples of books that do this particularly well! #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️
- Photo credit: Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site 🗃️
- Fuji from the plane. The only thing that made row 53, middle seat, worth it.
- Major thanks to @katecarp.bsky.social of @draftingthepast.bsky.social for putting together this episode. And MAJOR thanks to listener Kate Davis for naming Together in Manzanar as the best history book she read in 2025!! 💜 💜 💜 💜 💜 What a way to make my year. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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- Grateful to whomever is buying my existing book, especially while I try to motivate to get working on the next one! Seeing this helps. #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️
- Another crucial piece of writing from @andreapitzer.bsky.social, this time smartly pointing out parallels between dangers posed by current political discourse & propaganda impacting trans communities, immigrants, and Jewish communities in the US and beyond. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-re-soa...?
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- A very warm welcome to join us virtually, Dec 9, 7:30-8:30pm ET; Dec 10, 9:30-10:30 Tokyo time, @ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...! #booksky 🗃️
- Great to see this history getting such exposure, from @maddow.bsky.social, "the other Jewish American woman/writer" focusing on the forced removal & incarceration of the West Coast Japanese American community during WWII... #booksky 🗃️
- A virtual talk that works for both North American & Japan-based friends! 7:30pm ET Tues., Dec 9; 9:30am Tokyo time, Wed., Dec 10: A mother's fight to reconcile conflicting ethical, personal, & political forces from inside an American concentration camp. 📚💙 🗃️ www.falmouthjewish.org/together-in-...
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- Fun to appear on the Brainvwaves Video Anthology to talk about teachers who make a difference (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUO...) & the book TOGETHER IN MANZANAR (www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_00...). Shoutout to teachers everywhere (the true superheroes, along with librarians and archivists!). #booksky 🗃️
- Immense thanks, @jwaonline.bsky.social !
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- Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity
- One of my favorite podcasts turns...500!! Way to go, @brendanomeara.bsky.social. Listen in @ brendanomeara.com/episode-500-... #writingcommunity 📚💙
- For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/
- Many thanks to Boston University for making available the video of my talk, about the book Together in Manzanar & mixed families in US concentration camps, for CGS, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, & the Asia Center @ Pardee School of Global Studies 🗃️ 📚💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpkx...
- "Since the end of World War II, Manzanar and the other sites incarcerating Japanese Americans have been almost uniformly referred to as 'internment camps.' In the early 1940s, however, they were widely called concentration camps--a far more accurate description"
- From @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social's Paper Brigade Journal, Volume 9, "Dangerous Euphemisms," on the euphemisms that have shaped and distorted the memory of America’s WWII, homeland concentration camps. Read more & order the full volume www.jewishbookcouncil.org/.../paper-br... 🗃️
- From @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social's Paper Brigade Journal, Volume 9, "Dangerous Euphemisms," on the euphemisms that have shaped and distorted the memory of America’s WWII, homeland concentration camps. Read more & order the full volume www.jewishbookcouncil.org/.../paper-br... 🗃️
- Podcast swag💜. Thanks to Kate Carpenter of @draftingthepast.bsky.social for sending such fun swag after I got the great luck of being on her show. And for narrative history writers interested in pitching her, she just posted new guidelines & advice @ draftingthepast.com/blog/how-to-... 📚💙 🗃️
- Narrative history writers: Updated advice on pitching to one of the best podcasts around! From @katecarp.bsky.social at @draftingthepast.bsky.social: 📚💙 🗃️ #writingcommunity draftingthepast.com/blog/how-to-...?
- I wrote about this topic awhile ago for @literaryhub.bsky.social in light of historical parallels (lithub.com/how-trumps-a...), and now the always-wise @andreapitzer.bsky.social has gone further, broadening the contemporary relevance of this scapegoating & contextualizing the issue even further 💜
- Powerful & incredibly important new post by @andreapitzer.bsky.social . "...We can do better than a politics—and a world—based on cruelty and exclusion." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/stop-trans...?
- Powerful & incredibly important new post by @andreapitzer.bsky.social . "...We can do better than a politics—and a world—based on cruelty and exclusion." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/stop-trans...?
- Last-minute reminder for the #Toronto #book launch of Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp. A few spots remaining! 7-9pm, 750 Spadina Avenue. & don't forget: There will be kosher sushi... Registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil... 📚💙 🗃️
- Audiobook version launches today! If you can’t make it to our Toronto event this week (or even if you can), you can get a free copy of the audio version w/a trial subscription @ sites like Audible, B&N, etc, linked from main @tantoraudio.bsky.social site @ rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97.... 📚💙 🗃️
- A book launch; a discussion of histories spanning multiple cultures, continents, and generations; and kosher sushi. What's not to love? Wed., Nov 12, 7-9pm, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Avenue in downtown #Toronto. Pre-registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil.... #booksky 🗃️
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- In my next life, I want to come back as @lisaborders.bsky.social so I can dress up for my book launches like she does for hers. See the list of all events for her new book Last Night at the Disco @ www.lisaborders.com/events/ ! #booksky
- #Toronto #book launch! Co-sponsored by the Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the org Jewish&. Wed., November 12, 7-9pm. And yes, there will be KOSHER SUSHI! (I promise.) 💙📚 🗃️ Pre-registration requested: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
- Video from last week’s book event in Los Angeles with the incredible Holocaust Museum LA, held at the beautiful Barnes & Noble, The Grove, in which I got to be in conversation with @denshoproject.bsky.social's Jennifer Noji. Such an honor! 📚💙 🗃️ Watch now @ youtu.be/kEJRuqFfkqo?....
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- Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky
- The real-world costs of OBBBA: "When Your Sister Qualifies for Medicaid, or the ‘PiA Process’ " open.substack.com/pub/writersf...
- Reposted by Tracy SlaterHere it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
- Huge thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social & @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social for spotlighting this recent episode of the podcast @draftingthepast.bsky.social, where I got to talk about writing a first book of narrative history. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
- Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
- Online, free & open to the public. Pre-registration requested @ morristownjewishcenter.shulcloud.com/event/adult-...
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