Tracy Slater
@tracyslater.bsky.social
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
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Tracy Slater
@tracyslater.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Together in Manzanar: A True Story. Out now on Amazon: bit.ly/3IgLzql; Bookshop: bit.ly/4eJlVXi; B&N: bit.ly/4kyXehE; Chicago Review Press: bit.ly/44L3hty
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Fuji from the plane. The only thing that made row 53, middle seat, worth it.
January 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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...
Episode 81: The Best History Books You Read This Year
Listeners call in to Drafting the Past to tell host Kate Carpenter about the best history books they read in 2025.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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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In the meantime, if you didn't have a chance to check out my podcast's first season, I think it's some of the best writing & work I've ever done, & hope you'll take a listen!
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For new followers, here's my latest project, a podcast on sports histories, exclusion & inclusion, & the worst & best of America--& my single favorite moment from American history.
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The Celestials’ Last Game | Ben Railton
Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America
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January 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
In the meantime, if you didn't have a chance to check out my podcast's first season, I think it's some of the best writing & work I've ever done, & hope you'll take a listen!
bsky.app/profile/amer...
bsky.app/profile/amer...
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 📚💙 🗃️
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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...?
You're soaking in it
Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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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With @tracyslater.bsky.social, who broke up with her agent:
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So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?
Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."
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December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
With @tracyslater.bsky.social, who broke up with her agent:
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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 🗃️
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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 🗃️
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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-...
Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm
A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom
Falmouth Jewish...
www.falmouthjewish.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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Some Together in Manzanar/Burn Order trivia: The "Ringle Report" that Maddow focuses on in episode 1 was written from the same building, on letterhead listing the same address--707 South Spring Street in LA--where Elaine and Tommy were ordered to go to register for Tommy's incarceration in Manzanar.
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Some Together in Manzanar/Burn Order trivia: The "Ringle Report" that Maddow focuses on in episode 1 was written from the same building, on letterhead listing the same address--707 South Spring Street in LA--where Elaine and Tommy were ordered to go to register for Tommy's incarceration in Manzanar.
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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 🗃️
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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-...
Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm
A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom
Falmouth Jewish...
www.falmouthjewish.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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or not traumatic. Japanese Canadians were interned for the same reason as Japanese Americans: racism. Further, Japanese Americans were permitted to return to the Pacific Coast in 1945. Japanese Canadians were permitted to do so in 1949! A must read!
Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!
Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
or not traumatic. Japanese Canadians were interned for the same reason as Japanese Americans: racism. Further, Japanese Americans were permitted to return to the Pacific Coast in 1945. Japanese Canadians were permitted to do so in 1949! A must read!
Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!
Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!
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in one location. That said, there were similar tensions within Angler (all male dynamic) of lateral violence, and there was one stabbing in Tashme. But just because there were fever acts of overt violence either between Japanese Canadians and/or Canadian authorities does not make what happened
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
in one location. That said, there were similar tensions within Angler (all male dynamic) of lateral violence, and there was one stabbing in Tashme. But just because there were fever acts of overt violence either between Japanese Canadians and/or Canadian authorities does not make what happened
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military. Most were interned in the BC Interior located in valleys with dirt roads guarded by the RCMP. In such isolated places and the color of their skin, Japanese Canadians could not escape. Further, there were no deaths directly linked to internment in Canada, with gun shots only taking place
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
military. Most were interned in the BC Interior located in valleys with dirt roads guarded by the RCMP. In such isolated places and the color of their skin, Japanese Canadians could not escape. Further, there were no deaths directly linked to internment in Canada, with gun shots only taking place
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This is where I make my compare and contrast between my knowledge of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, and this book. With the exception of Angler in northwestern Ontario, the majority of Japanese Canadians that were interned were NOT behind barbed wire fences and guarded by the
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is where I make my compare and contrast between my knowledge of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, and this book. With the exception of Angler in northwestern Ontario, the majority of Japanese Canadians that were interned were NOT behind barbed wire fences and guarded by the
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 🗃️
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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 🗃️
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Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity
Immense thanks, @jwaonline.bsky.social !
JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Immense thanks, @jwaonline.bsky.social !
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JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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 📚💙
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
One of my favorite podcasts turns...500!! Way to go, @brendanomeara.bsky.social. Listen in @ brendanomeara.com/episode-500-... #writingcommunity 📚💙
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For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/
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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...
10/29/25 Author Talk with Tracy Slater
YouTube video by Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
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November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/