Curtis Chin reading and conversation

Curtis Chin reading and conversation

Date/Time
Date(s) - March 26, 2024
5:30 pm

Location
Bargman Room, McNichols Campus Library


Writer, director, producer and activist Curtis Chin will read from his new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” in a reading and conversation at Tuesday, April 26 in the Bargman Room, second floor of the McNichols Campus Library. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and event at 6 p.m.

The book is about growing up Asian American in Detroit and coming out in his working-class immigrant community as well as being a first-generation college student at the University of Michigan. The Associated Press calls Everything I Learned, “a candid, sometimes funny reflection on growing up Chinese American and gay in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s.

Chin is co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, a nonprofit literary arts organization dedicated to promoting Asian American writers. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe as well as network and cable television.

The event is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and EducationDepartment of English and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.


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