That was Ishmael Reed's nickname for Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Shawn Wong, and Lawson Fusao Inada, who (on top of their own writing) put together the first major anthology of Asian-American fiction (titled Aiiieeeee!) and thereby began a canon. "The Four Horsemen had no interest in being loved," writes Hua Hsu in this essay, […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM on January 2, 2020