Podcast appearances and mentions of James D Houston

In 1981 The Kitchen Sisters interviewed Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston for a story about life on the homefront during World War II. Jeanne told stories of her childhood growing up in Manzanar, a hastily built detention camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed guard towers in the midst of the Owens Valley in the Mojave desert, where Japanese Americans were incarcerated for 3 years during World War II. Jeanne was 7 years old when her father, a commercial fisherman, was taken away with no explanation by the FBI and imprisoned in Bismarck, North Dakota. The family had no idea where he had been taken or why.  Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's book, Farewell to Manzanar, written in collaboration with her husband James D. Houston,  has become  a curriculum staple in classrooms across the nation and is one of the first ways many are introduced to this dark period of American history. In listening to this interview recorded 44 years ago we are struck by how Jeanne's memories of those years — the sense of fear, of families being separated, of innocent people being terrorized, hunted — resonate with what is happening in our country today.  

Chelsea and Wade discuss the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston as well as other stories of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Each episode this month will cover a different work from the AAPI community.Don't forget to like, follow, or subscribe, and leave us a review! Let us know what you'd like us to cover next!  Follow us here!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poddemastered/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodDemasteredFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodDemasteredHave any topic requests, questions, or general comments? Send us an email at demasteredpodcast@gmail.com.Find us on:Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/5f39rcruSpotify: https://tinyurl.com/3b6t3y24Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3613370Google Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/59429adcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@poddemasteredStitcher: https://tinyurl.com/ana26eazAmazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/mps25mdmGoodpods: https://www.goodpods.com/podcasts/186329RadioPublic: https://tinyurl.com/anjxyzrvRedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/podcastdemasteredand more!Music: Switch Me On by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Jessica and Adam discuss the books they're reading and give recommendations to Laura who asks: "I just read Shirley Jackson for the first time and while I can't say I enjoyed it (in fact often I felt queasy/icky/upset) I can't stop thinking about it and want to read more. Any thoughts on what to read next AND do you know of any good literary criticism of The Lottery and Other Stories?" Our website: litthesedayspodcast.com Our Instagram: @LitTheseDaysPodcast Our Discord: https://discord.gg/ARTydwMt Books discussed: The Deep by Rivers Solomon - check out the song that inspired it: https://discord.gg/ARTydwMt Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 1 Maus by Art Spiegleman Yeats is dead edited by Joseph O'Connor Nihilism by Noel Gertz The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Those Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

“Farewell to Manzanar” is an excellent NBC television movie from 1976. The film is based on an autobiography written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The movie tells the story of seven-year-old Jeanne Wakasuki and her family’s internment at Manzanar in 1942 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. That order authorized the creation of the War Relocation Authority and subsequently many internment camps and other facilities located in several parts of the country. One such internment camp was Manzanar. Under the direction of John Korty the cast of Yuki Shimoda as Ko Wakatsuki, Nobu McCarthy as Misa/Jeanne Wakatsuki, Young Jeanne played by Dori Takeshita, Mako as Fukimoto, Zenahiro played by Pat Morita and many other fine actors bring to life the dramatic and tragic story of Manzanar. Here's a link to "Farewell to Manzanar" on YouTube (may be inactive so just search for the movie title if that's the case)Here's a link to an interview with Pat Morita on YouTube Check us out on Patreon at www.patreon.com/classicmoviereviews for even more content and bonus shows.

Startup (Little Brown and Company) Doree Shafrir’s hilarious, smart debut Startup is set in the heart of New York City’s tech industry, where 36 is considered past your prime and a pole-dancing workshop is an acceptable Thursday evening activity with your co-workers. A veteran online journalist, Doree has written a hilarious and sharply observed novel about the difficulties of real-life connection in our hyper-connected world. Startup assembles a cast of indelible characters: Mack, the it-boy visionary of the moment trying to take his app to the next level; Isabel, a social media hero working for him a bit too closely; Katya, an ambitious Russian emigre journalist desperate for a scoop; and Sabrina, an exhausted mother of two whose inattentive husband happens to be Katya's boss. When a scandal erupts in the lower Manhattan loft building where all four work, they quickly discover just how small a world the Big Apple's tech community can be. A senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, Doree was inspired to write this novel by the follies and foibles of the startup world, and also in part by some of the scandals that plagued the tech industry in the last few years. Camille Perri, author of The Assistants, notes Startup “is chock-full of strong women transcending the workplace drama, sexual politics, and all-around dumb stuff the men in their life are doing. It’s a novel that just might spark the official feministing of startup culture.” This debut, already praised by Rumaan Alam, Joanna Rakoff, and Nick Bilton, is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology's inability to hack human nature. Praise for Startup  “Is there a satirist alive more brilliant—and more insightful—than Doree Shafrir? That I tore through Startup in a single day—ignoring the cries of my children and the dinging of my phone, laughing with recognition at her characters’ foibles—is perhaps not nearly as significant as the fact that this ridiculously compelling novel has haunted me, every minute, in the weeks that followed. If you have ever lived in New York or worked in an office, you will love this novel. If you love the novels of Tom Perotta, you will love this novel. But also: If you are a sentient human, you will love this novel.”--Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year "Don't buy this book. Don't open. Don't start reading it. Because if you do, I can assure you, you won't be able to put it down. I was hooked from the first page and found myself lost in a beautifully-written fiction that so succinctly echoes today's bizarre reality."— Nick Bilton, Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair and author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal “This funny, empowering debut is chock-full of strong women transcending the workplace drama, sexual politics, and all-around dumb stuff the men in their life are doing. It’s a novel that just might spark the official feministing of startup culture. If I were a tech bro, I’d be shaking in my hoodie.”–Camille Perri, author of The Assistants Doree Shafrir has also been on staff at Rolling Stone, the New York Observer, Gawker, and Philadelphia Weekly, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Slate, The Awl, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, and Wired. She grew up outside of Boston, lived in New York for nine years, and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster. Jade Chang has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. The Wangs VS. The World is her first book.

Complete with Sam's movie trailer intro, the boys discuss Harper Lee's newly published (7/14/15) novel Go Set a Watchman. Since the initial announcement of its imminent publication, this novel has been poised to become THE literary event of the year, but not without controversy and much speculation regarding its discovery. But does it match up to the pedigree of its predecessor? Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com Show Notes & Links To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (film) Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston & Jeanne Wakatsuki Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Listen to a conversation about race, class and geography with Keenan Norris and Crystal Sykes. Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris’s first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley—a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. Erycha and Touissant live only a few miles apart in the city of Highland, but their worlds are starkly separated by the lines of class, violence, and history. In alternating chapters that touch and intertwine only briefly, Brother and the Dancer follows their adolescence and young adulthood on two sides of the city, the luminous San Bernardino range casting its hot shade over their separate tales in an unflinching vision of black life in Southern California. Keenan Norris teaches English and African-American Literature and helps conduct the Affirm program at Evergreen Valley College. His work has appeared in the Santa Monica, Green Mountains and Evansville Reviews, Connotation Press, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire and BOOM: A Journal of California. He is also the editor of Scarecrow Press’s upcoming collection of critical essays, Street Lit. Crystal Sykes is a writer, photographer and blogger residing in San Francisco, California. Graduating from San Francisco State University with a degree in Magazine Journalism, her first feature story, "The Black Exodus" won the award for Best Feature in Xpress Magazine. Most recently, her feature story "I'm Not Your 'Black Friend'" remains one of The Bold Italic's most read story of the year for it's commentary on privilege and ironic racism.

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