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Meet Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung, authors of "Coney Detroit." Joe is a lifelong Detroiter and a member of the advisory board for the Great Lakes Books Series at Wayne State University Press. Following a 31-year newspaper career, 25 of them spent at the Detroit Free Press, he became a journalism professor at Michigan State University. He teaches, writes and edits, and provides journalism career advice. He likes to try new coney island restaurants and loves to take visitors out for a side-by-side taste challenge at American and Lafayette downtown.Katherine is a reporter at the Detroit Free Press covering Michigan's economy and other business subjects. Before joining the Free Press in May 2007, she worked for the Dallas Morning News and The Detroit News. Katherine is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
These two authors met while Joe was recruiting for the Free Press. Katherine came to the Free Press as a business reporter and, when Joe told her about the project over coney's, she said she wanted to write this book. He immediately agreed that she would be great for the job. The book features work by 12 photographers who all have different shooting style but who pretty much all love coney's.
What inspired you to be an author?
"Coney Detroit" was a very deliberate idea. Joe was trying to come up with a quintessentially Detroit subject for a book for Wayne State University Press. After thinking about Detroit's sports teams, he moved on to other subjects and the coney concept and title quickly came to mind. After Katherine came on the project, she spent some time double-checking to make sure no one had already done this idea.What makes your books unique or distinctive?
This book is unique for its wonderful photography, which reflects so many perspectives, and its cool design. It is so much fun to read and go through. You can't help but feel good about Detroit when you learn our coney story.
The authors and photographers are donating all their royalties to the Gleaners Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan. We are glad that we can use a book about coney island hot dogs to help people who don't have enough to eat. Gleaners is a local agency that does so much for so many, we feel lucky that we can support their mission. Gleaners will get enough money for about half a dozen meals from the sale of each copy of "Coney Detroit."
What do you most love about the creatice process?
It is full of surprises. We love to hear people's stories and think that this book is really more about the men and women who bring us coney's than about the dogs themselves. Everyone seems to have his or her own coney story and we love hearing them!
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