Author Julie Otsuka / Remembering 'Nation' Editor Victor Navasky
Podcast: Fresh AirPublished On: Fri Feb 03 2023
Description: After losing much of her memory to dementia, one of the things the main character in the novel The Swimmers remembers is being forced into an incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. Author Julie Otsuka talks about the novel and her own family's experience in Japanese incarceration camps. Also, we remember Victor Navasky, the longtime editor and eventual publisher of The Nation. He also wrote the book Naming Names, now considered a classic, about the Hollywood 10 and the House Un-American Activities Committee.David Bianculli reviews the new Netflix mockumentary series Cunk on Earth.
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