tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8634890077376062546..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: 1919Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-82268757988718377922019-12-27T16:32:03.538-05:002019-12-27T16:32:03.538-05:00Tom Russell refers to *Irish* picture bridge in hi...Tom Russell refers to *Irish* picture bridge in his song Mary Clare Malloy:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-NGz7AyU0<br /><br />I haven't been able to find any references as to whether this was really a thing.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-79740956491234146792019-12-26T20:13:50.548-05:002019-12-26T20:13:50.548-05:00That looks like it! ThanksThat looks like it! ThanksAssistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-44777108120838100602019-12-26T08:48:30.991-05:002019-12-26T08:48:30.991-05:00Try this. Julie Otsuka Talks About New Novel, The ...Try this. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/julie-otsuka-talks-about-new-novel-the-buddha-in-the-attic" rel="nofollow">Julie Otsuka Talks About New Novel, The Buddha in the Attic.</a> <br /><i>Her exquisitely crafted and resonant new novel is much less autobiographical, she says. The Buddha in the Attic follows a group of Japanese “picture brides” who sail to San Francisco in 1919 to marry men they only know through exchanging photographs. “There were no picture brides in my family, but it’s a very common first generation story. It’s how thousands of Japanese women came to this country before Asians were excluded altogether in 1924.”<br /><br />This second novel, she says, entailed “tons of research.”<br /><br />“I read a lot of oral histories and history books, and old newspapers. I had to learn about two worlds: the old Japan from which the picture brides came, and the America of the 1920s and 1930s which they immigrated to. I kept many notebooks filled with detailed notes about everything.”</i>RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.com