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The late author and screenwriter James Clavell is best remembered these days for his series of bestselling novels set in Asia, most notably the 1975 …
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Naomi Hirahara is a Japanese American writer and journalist known for her award-winning mystery novels. Hirahara tends to utilize the mystery genre to explore pockets …
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David Mura is an Asian American poet, novelist, playwright, critic and performance artist whose writings explore the themes of race, identity and history. In 2018, …
I took another sip of the too sweet cocktail in front of me. “Surprise me,” I had said to the middle-aged bartender when he asked …
Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has been published by a range of publications, from The Washington Post to …
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In October 2022, during a trip to Berkeley, California to do research at the Bancroft Library, I stopped in at Eastwind Books. Normally, when I …
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One of the first books of fiction published in the post-World War II era to reference the wartime removal of Japanese Americans was John Franklin …
Thanks to a lifelong love of the written word, Iris Yamashita continues to carve out a nice literary life for herself. And after reaching the …
I’m not the type to wallow in a bad situation. I’m more apt to pack my things and move on. Much of this comes from …
“It’s the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before,” said Frank Abe, one of two authors of the upcoming graphic novel We Hereby …
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