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23-542: Selah Saterstrom is an American author, originally from the south. She is the author of five books: Rancher (Burrow Press, 2021), Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017), Slab ( Coffee House Press , 2015), The Meat and Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007), and The Pink Institution (Coffee House Press, 2004). Her work has twice been nominated for the Believer Book Award . She

46-625: A Number One Son: The Great Chinese American Novel , was written in the early 1970s, but was not published until nearly four decades later (2015) by Calvin McMcmillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature. The work is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the further adventures of Tam Lum, the original work's protagonist. Stereotypes of Asian Americans and traditional Chinese folklore are common themes in much of his work. Many of his works revolve around criticism of

69-467: A radio program, Chin has also debated the scholar Yunte Huang regarding the latter's evaluation of Charlie Chan in his writing. This discussion was later evaluated on the activist blog "Big WOWO." In addition to his work as an author and playwright, Frank Chin has also worked extensively with Japanese American resisters of the draft in WWII. His novel, Born in the U.S.A. , is dedicated to this subject. Chin

92-562: A sabbatical working as the first Chinese brakeman for the Southern Pacific railroad, he intimidated a dean into graduating him with a bachelor's degree in English: "[I said] 'I want a decision by Friday' and he said, 'Well, I'm a very busy man,' and I said, 'You're a working stiff like me - you have a decision Friday and I don't care what it is. Either I've graduated or I haven't graduated because I have to get back to work.' Friday, I walked by

115-515: Is a full professor and the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver . This American novelist article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coffee House Press Coffee House began with Toothpaste , a mimeograph magazine founded by Allan Kornblum in Iowa in 1970. After taking a University of Iowa typography course with the acclaimed Harry Duncan , Kornblum

138-573: Is making a documentary about a boxer. Chin researched and hosted Chinaman's Chance (1972) an Ene Riisna directed documentary focusing on the conditions of Chinatown communities in America. Interview subjects included Roland Winters , Betty Lee Sung , and Ben Fee . Chin also directed a documentary short in 1972, The Last Temple about the Taoist temple in Hanford, California , which dates back to 1893, and

161-575: The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner , one of the year's most critically acclaimed novels, drawing national and international attention to the press. Other award-winning Coffee House Press authors include Ron Padgett , Anne Waldman , Frank Chin , Kao Kalia Yang , David Hilton, Laird Hunt , and Brian Evenson . Coffee House Press won the 2017 AWP Small Press Publisher Award given by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs that "acknowledges

184-715: The Emily Books imprint. Anitra Budd succeeded Fischbach as publisher and executive director in August 2021. Coffee House has published more than 300 books, with over 250 still in print, and releases 15–20 new titles each year. It has earned a reputation for long-term commitment to the authors it chooses to publish. The press is currently located in the historic Grain Belt Bottling House in Northeast Minneapolis . Especially notable books from Coffee House Press include

207-485: The best in contemporary literature, first and foremost—then, only secondly, as representatives of minority communities. That might be one of our most important contributions [to American literature]." In July 2011, after a two-year leadership transition process, Kornblum stepped down to become the press’s senior editor. Chris Fischbach, who began at the press as an intern in 1994, succeeded him as publisher. In 2015, Coffee House partnered with Emily Gould and Ruth Curry on

230-658: The best-selling Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage and National Book Award finalists Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (poetry, 2008), and I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (fiction, 2010). Other national award-winning titles include American Book Award winners Somewhere Else by Matthew Shenoda (2006), The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi (2008), American Library Association Notable Book Miniatures by Norah Labiner (2003) and ALA Best First Novels List selection Our Sometime Sister , also by Labiner (2000). In 2011 Coffee House published Leaving

253-672: The care of a retired vaudeville couple in Placerville, California until he was 6. At that time, his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area and thereafter Chin grew up in Oakland Chinatown . He attended the University of California, Berkeley , where he contributed to the California Pelican . He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1965. According to Chin, who had returned from

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276-615: The effort to preserve and restore it. Theatre Communications Group produced the Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project , a series highlighting influential figures in the American minority theaters. Set to be released in 2017, one of the episodes focuses on Frank Chin, his time with the Asian American Theater Company, and Chin's influence. In 2019, It Takes a Lunatic a Netflix distributed documentary about Wynn Handman

299-651: The hard work, creativity, and innovation" of small presses and "their contributions to the literary landscape" of the US. Frank Chin Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre . Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California on February 25, 1940. His grandfather worked on the Western Pacific Railroad . He remained under

322-588: The office and the secretary jumps up and says: 'You've graduated!' I said, 'That's all I want to know'." Early in his career, Chin worked as a story editor and scriptwriter on Sesame Street and as a reporter for KING-TV in Seattle. Chin is considered to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre . He co-founded the Asian American Theater Company with Filipino-American playwright Melvyn Escueta in 1973. His play The Chickencoop Chinaman

345-651: The press's authors and readers, Kornblum renamed it Coffee House Press. The press soon began to receive national acclaim. In the early 1990s, books like Donald Duk by Frank Chin and Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita (a 1991 American Book Award winner) drew national attention and also helped to cement the press's continuing reputation for publishing exceptional works by writers of color. As Kornblum once described it, "Coffee House Press has actively published writers of color as writers, as representatives of

368-465: The racism in the United States. Frank Chin has accused other Asian American writers, particularly Maxine Hong Kingston , of furthering such stereotypes and misrepresenting the traditional stories. Chin also has been highly critical of American writer Amy Tan for her telling of Chinese-American stories, indicating that her body of work has furthered and reinforced stereotypical views of this group. On

391-413: Was also an instrumental organizer for the first Day of Remembrance . Chin is also a musician. In the mid-1960s, he taught Robbie Krieger , a member of The Doors , how to play the flamenco guitar . After a stroke in 1990, he lost his ability to play the guitar and, temporarily, to laugh. Chin was married for five years to Kathy Chang in the 1970s. Kathleen Chang (October 10, 1950 – October 22, 1996),

414-564: Was better known by her performance name Kathy Change . She was a Sino-American political activist, writer, and performance artist. The Year of the Dragon was an adaptation of Chin's play of the same name. Starring George Takei , the film was televised in 1975 as part of the PBS Great Performances series. As an actor, Chin, appeared as an extra in the riot scene of the made-for-TV movie adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar . Chin

437-498: Was inspired to turn Toothpaste into Toothpaste Press, a small publishing company dedicated to producing poetry pamphlets and letterpress books. After 10 years of publishing letterpress books, Kornblum closed the press in December 1983; the following year, he moved to Minneapolis , reopened the press as a nonprofit organization, and began printing trade books. Concerned that the press's lighthearted name belied his serious commitment to

460-456: Was interviewed in the documentary The Slanted Screen (2006), directed by Jeff Adachi , about the representation of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood. Chin wrote the script for the 1967 documentary And Still Champion! The Story of Archie Moore . Chin's script was narrated by actor Jack Palance . Some of Chin's experiences would be worked into his first play, in which the protagonist

483-458: Was one of several Asian American writers who appeared in the movie; Shawn Wong and Lawson Fusao Inada , who, like Chin were co-editors of the anthology Aiiieeeee! , also acted in the riot scene. Chin would go on to criticize the movie in the May 1976 issue of Mother Jones . What's Wrong with Frank Chin is a 2005 biographical documentary, directed by Curtis Choy, about Chin's life. Frank Chin

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506-505: Was one of several writers ( Jeffery Paul Chan , Lawson Fusao Inada , and Shawn Wong of CARP, Combined Asian American Resources Project) who worked to republish John Okada 's novel No-No Boy in the 1970s; Chin contributed an afterword which can be found in every reprinting of the novel. Chin has appeared in Jeff Adachi 's The Slanted Screen , a 2006 documentary film about stereotypical depictions of Asian males in American cinema. Chin

529-422: Was the first by an Asian-American to be produced on a major New York stage. As an author, Chin has won three American Book Awards : the first in 1982 for his plays The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon , the second in 1989 for a collection of short stories entitled The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. , and the third in 2000 for lifetime achievement. His full length novel, Confessions of

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