Lament in the Night

Fri, 1 Mar 2013 08:40:00 -0500

Lament in the Night (Kaya Press, 2012). Photo by Toyo Miyake, courtesy of Toyo Miyake Studio." title="Author Shoson Nagahara employed a gritty, proto-noir style in writing about Japanese immigrants living in 1920s Little Tokyo. This 1924 image, "Little Tokyo: An Alley" is one of the many historical photos printed in Lament in the Night (Kaya Press, 2012). Photo by Toyo Miyake, courtesy of Toyo Miyake Studio." /> USC Dornsife’s Kaya Press publishes the first-ever English translation of two works by long-lost author Shoson Nagahara, who wrote about the dark underbelly of 1920s Japanese immigrant life in L.A.’s Little Tokyo.

Kaya Press Moves from New York to USC Dornsife

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:22:00 -0500

The non-profit publisher of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature, housed in USC Dornsife’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, brings innovative fiction, poetry and critical essays to the public.

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Lament in the Night

Kaya Press Moves from New York to USC Dornsife