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This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice

Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” celebrates the cuisine and community of his youth. Now he’s paying it forward.

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A New Memoir Serves Up Life Lessons From a Childhood in a Detroit Chinese Restaurant

Detroit Metro Times

Curtis Chin Tells Detroit History With a Side of Chinese Food in New Memoir

Detroit News

New Memoir Tells Tale of Family, Identity and Growing Up in the Cass Corridor

Electric Literature

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Curtis Chin Discusses His Book

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Gift That Chung’s Gave Me

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How a Chinese Restaurant in Detroit Taught a Queer LA Writer Everything He Knows

New York Times

This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice

Out History

"Everything I Learned": A 2023 Interview With Curtis Chin, by Judy Wu

Poets & Writers

Ten Questions for Curtis Chin

SF Chronicle

25 Highly Anticipated Books

Seattle Times

A New Memoir Serves Up Life Lessons From a Childhood in a Chinese Restaurant

South China Morning Post

Why Gay Chinese American Is Telling His Story of Growing Up in Detroit’s Chinatown

Time Magazine

Excerpt of "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant"

USA Today

Trump Administration Could Change the Way We Read

Washington Post

Curtis Chin’s Memoir Puts Everything on the Table

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The Multitudes of the Family Restaurant: Q&A With Curtis Chin

Boston Globe

Curtis Chin Tells the Story of His Family’s Chinese Restaurant

Christian Science Monitor

Curtis Chin Grew Up in a Chinese Restaurant. He’s on a 300-City Tour to Save Others

Detroit Metro Times

Metro Detroit Native Curtis Chin Brings Acclaimed Memoir Home on a Statewide Book Tour

Eater

The Best Food Books to Read This Fall

Goodreads

55 Most Anticipated Books for the Fall

Houston Chronicle

Award-Winning Author Curtis Chin Discusses His Memoir in Houston This Week

Los Angeles Review of Books

Tastes Like Home

NBC News

Curtis Chin's New Memoir Recalls Growing Up Asian American and Gay in Detroit

NPR’s Book of the Day

Curtis Chin’s Memoir Pays Homage to His Family’s Restaurant

Oxford Blue

Everything I Learned From the Author of Everything I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

Publishers Weekly

Top 10 Memoirs for the Fall

SF Chronicle

Favorite Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2023

Seattle Times

Author Curtis Chin on His Writing Process, Coming Out and His New Memoir

Time Magazine

Top 36 Most Anticipated Titles for the Fall

Tricycle Magazine

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W Magazine

The 23 Most Anticipated Books

Washington Post

29 Books to Read This Fall

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