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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@chireviewpress.bsky.social
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
www.youtube.com
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/
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
www.youtube.com
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...
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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... 🗃️
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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... 🗃️
"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... 🗃️
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"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... 🗃️
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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... 🗃️
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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 💜
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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 💜
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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-... 📚💙 🗃️
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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-... 📚💙 🗃️
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-... 📚💙 🗃️
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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-...?
How to Pitch Drafting the Past – Drafting the Past
draftingthepast.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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 💜
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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...?
Stop trans scapegoating
The only more powerful narrative tool than a villain is a hero.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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...?
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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.... 📚💙 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.... 📚💙 🗃️
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... 📚💙 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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.... 📚💙 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.... 📚💙 🗃️
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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 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
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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
Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
Dig it.
welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...
So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?
Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."
welcometopitchclub.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
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
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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