Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: Q&A with Author Curtis Chin

Description: Curtis Chin will read, discuss, and answer questions about his recent memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, about growing up as a young, gay Chinese American in his family’s restaurant in Detroit.

Date: 1/29/2024

Time: 3:30-5pm

Venue: Hyde Hall, University Room

Bio

A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” will be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.