Author Interview: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant with Curtis Chin

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · Feb 10, 2025 · 45m

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I'm so excited to welcome writer Curtis Chin on the podcast to discuss his memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant," which explores his upbringing in his family's Chinese restaurant in Detroit during the 1980s. He shares how the restaurant and his family's history in Michigan since the 1800s inspired him to write the memoir to pass on this story to the next generation. He then…