An agonizing must-read. Skewers the model-minority stereotype and creates space for the anger and trauma resulting from internment. Okada’s prose is haunting–perfectly suited to Ichiro’s sense of displacement (cultural, physical, moral). Sharp Seattle imagery and a fascinating publishing history (look up Shawn Wong at UW!). A vital history lesson, especially in today’s climate. –Ellen, Queen …
by Peter Kelley for UW News: Charles Johnson, University of Washington professor emeritus of English and award-winning author, has released a new book of short stories, his fourth. The dozen stories in Night Hawks, published this month by Scribner, range from realism to light science fiction, myth and his own personal experiences, laced gently with humor …
by Peter Kelley for UW News, June 5, 2017 A popular podcast by Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information School is now a book. Documents that Changed the Way We Live is being published … by Rowman & Littlefield. Since 2012 Janes, an iSchool associate professor, has written and produced episodes of a podcast about the origin …
From the University of Washington website, originally published December 12, 2016 Practical, personal thoughts on storytelling in Charles Johnson’s latest book, ‘The Way of the Writer’ by Peter Kelley Charles Johnson is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of Writing, now emeritus, at the University of Washington. He is the author of 22 …
Ross Coen is a doctoral student in the University of Washington history department and the author of Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America. Coen answered a few questions about the book for UW Today. UWT: What’s the concept behind this book? RC: When we think about the history of World War …
She spent her early years in Yamhill, Oregon, went to grammar and high school (and set loads of her stories) in Portland, got her library science degree at UW and was a librarian in Yakima. So, yeah, we claim her as our own and never tire of ruminating on the reasons we love her. In …
