Curtis Chin: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

We're delighted to be joined by author Curtis Chin to talk about his hugely popular memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. 

This humour-filled memoir tells his story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s, AIDS, and his family's popular Chinese restaurant. The book has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, as well as CBS Saturday Morning News and NBC News. It's also been honoured by the State of Michigan and the American Library Association.

If you'd like to find out more, you can watch a segment about Curtis and his book that aired on PBS Newshour.

And Curtis will also be the featured author on our website, so keep an eye out for more!

The event is free and open to all, but spaces are limited, so please book your free ticket here. And please note that the event is in The Leeds Library, on Commercial Street (not Leeds Central Library!)

And if you're unfortunate enough not to live in Yorkshire, you can catch Curtis on other dates of his tour!

Curtis Chin is a co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City and served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy 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, was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.