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📚New Blog Post: "LOOKING FOR SURVIVAL AMID CATASTROPHE" by Wendy Kozol 📖.Beyond the harrowing images of war, there's a s...
10/27/2023

📚New Blog Post: "LOOKING FOR SURVIVAL AMID CATASTROPHE" by Wendy Kozol 📖.

Beyond the harrowing images of war, there's a story of daily survival and endurance. Wendy highlights the unseen moments amid conflict, challenging our perspective on the Israel-Gaza crisis 🌪.

Here is a link to the post: 👇https://www.fordhampress.com/blog

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Good morning Brooklyn! We are at Modernist Studies. Stop by Table #8 to check out our latest titles. Browsing online? U...
10/27/2023

Good morning Brooklyn! We are at Modernist Studies. Stop by Table #8 to check out our latest titles. Browsing online? Use coupon code MSA2023-FI at checkout to receive 25% off plus free shipping on all exhibit titles https://ow.ly/owcW50Q18B3

We're hosting a virtual Italian American Studies Book Exhibit. Browse our newest Italian American Studies books and SAVE...
10/26/2023

We're hosting a virtual Italian American Studies Book Exhibit. Browse our newest Italian American Studies books and SAVE 25% plus free shipping when you use promo code IASA2023-FI at checkout. IASA - Italian American Studies Association Critical Studies in Italian Migrations https://ow.ly/7H6S50Q1eMT

We are excited to be attending Modernist Studies in Brooklyn! Stop by the FUP tables to browse our latest offerings. Joi...
10/26/2023

We are excited to be attending Modernist Studies in Brooklyn! Stop by the FUP tables to browse our latest offerings. Join the editors of Joyce Studies Annual, Keri Walsh and Chris GoGwilt for a meet and greet on Saturday at noon.

10/25/2023

On Thursday, Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture is hosting a conversation on Dracula with Alice Isabella Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University. Sullivan, who specializes in Eastern European and Byzantine...

10/20/2023

Dr. Miguel H. Díaz is the John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service and was selected by President Barack Obama as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Prof. Díaz obtained his doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University...

Upcoming New York Adventure Club In-Person Event, October 28th: Exploring the Secrets & Scandals of Riverside Drive: The...
10/20/2023

Upcoming New York Adventure Club In-Person Event, October 28th: Exploring the Secrets & Scandals of Riverside Drive: The West 100s with Stephanie Azzarone, author of Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park

10/20/2023

Food is not only a way for Raj Tawney to tap into his cultural roots, but he sees it as a gateway for people to explore other cultures comfortably.

10/20/2023

Spooky season doesn't end with Halloween, especially if you're an H. P. Lovecraft fan. Hope you can join Claire Donner (The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies) and me at the official launch event for "Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham" (Fordham University Press) at P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts on November 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m. Full info and RSVP: https://ptknitwear.com/events/30344

"The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture" Wars by Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner is on the list! 👉...
10/19/2023

"The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture" Wars by Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner is on the list!
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New books in global...

Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy, by Georges Van Den Abbeele https://ow.ly/ha4...
10/19/2023

Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy, by Georges Van Den Abbeele https://ow.ly/ha4e50PEsyK

Faith, Reason, and Theosis, edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos https://ow.ly/MyOX50PEsbJ
10/17/2023

Faith, Reason, and Theosis, edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos https://ow.ly/MyOX50PEsbJ

Raj Tawney (l.) discussed his debut memoir, 'Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience' (...
10/13/2023

Raj Tawney (l.) discussed his debut memoir, 'Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience' (Fordham University Press) with author and journalist Wajahat Ali at P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts in Manhattan on October 5 (Raj Tawney) Publishers Weekly Picture of the Day Over the River Public Relations

10/13/2023

Sip your way through the oldest coffee shops, see the spookiest Halloween decorations, and discover more things to do in NYC!

"As I chopped onions alongside my mom and asked questions, I learned more about her life than I ever could have imagined...
10/13/2023

"As I chopped onions alongside my mom and asked questions, I learned more about her life than I ever could have imagined."—Raj Tawney

Tawney discusses the process of writing his debut memoir in How I Wrote It Shondaland

Tawney discusses the process of writing his debut memoir, “Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience.”

10/13/2023

A memoir about food and growing up mixed-race.

10/13/2023
The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement, by Nazan Üstündağ ...
10/13/2023

The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement, by Nazan Üstündağ https://ow.ly/tjSE50PEs10

Join us at ! Stop by to browse our latest titles in , , , and more. Browsing online? Use coupon code SPEP2023-FI f...
10/12/2023

Join us at ! Stop by to browse our latest titles in , , , and more. Browsing online? Use coupon code SPEP2023-FI for 25% off titles plus free shipping in the US https://ow.ly/e77050PWbRS

10/11/2023
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909, by Raymond James Krohn htt...
10/11/2023

Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909, by Raymond James Krohn https://ow.ly/sycb50PErFX

David Goodwin's micro-biography, Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham, is set to hit shelves on November 7th 🎉📖✨P...
10/10/2023

David Goodwin's micro-biography, Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham, is set to hit shelves on November 7th 🎉📖✨Pre-Order your copy today! https://ow.ly/tjbw50PLFUm

Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Ba...
10/09/2023

Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman https://ow.ly/bWL650PErti

10/05/2023

Do join us on Oct 21 for a non-fiction afternoon --- Untold Tales of and Bordighera Press Fordham University Press Meet, greet, buy our books ... Holiday Seasons are just around the corner ...
Gift a Book or two

10/04/2023

Author Raj Tawney discusses Madhur Jaffrey's classic cookbook an Invitation to Indian Cooking and shares how it influenced his debut memoir.

10/04/2023

In early 1926, H. P. Lovecraft visited the Center for Brooklyn History (then the Long Island Historical Society)--just blocks from his rooming house at 169 Clinton Street. He left impressed by the design of the Center's reading room. You can read about this episode and the author's Brooklyn and New York adventures in "Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham" (Fordham University Press). In bookstores on Tuesday, November 7, 2023!

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📚 Publishers Weekly Review! Experience Okpara's powerful debut that illuminates q***r identity and acceptance. “i desir...
10/04/2023

📚 Publishers Weekly Review! Experience Okpara's powerful debut that illuminates q***r identity and acceptance. “i desire nothing but for the city to see me in my lush nakedness & love me.”🌈

Discover more insights in our full review: ✨https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781531504601✨

🔗To grab your copy, visit: www.fordhampress.com

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🤨From Brow Shame to Brow Fame: Raj Tawney's Journey of Embracing His Unique Identity. Read his touching tale of race, id...
10/04/2023

🤨From Brow Shame to Brow Fame: Raj Tawney's Journey of Embracing His Unique Identity. Read his touching tale of race, identity, and the ever-changing world of beauty standards. 🐛 www.fordhampress.com

When in school, he tried trimming his thick and bushy eyebrows to make them thinner like everyone else's. He now wishes he had just embraced them.

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For the final stop of the OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN virtual book tour, We Love Big Books and We Cannot Lie joins us, and they share a great review of this highly entertaining memoir about finding one’s place in the world:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeY5s1xLIAj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Where are you really from??🌎

I was born in South Korea🇰🇷and am really from there, Alyssa was born in Kansas City Missouri and her family is really from Wales.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

In Our Laundry, Our Town (Fordham University Press) by Alvin Eng writer-performer as a first-generation Chinese American, he would frequently get asked this question when he would answer with: Flushing! He was born in the US, his father was a paper son and his parents had an arranged marriage before they were fully settled in the US. His family owns a hand laundry business, where he helps out, but would rather be a rock star!

In this memoir he recalls the ups and downs of his childhood growing up in Flushing NYC. He went into detail about how many times he felt like he didn’t quite fit in anywhere, he was never quite Chinese enough for Chinatown and not American enough for everyone else.

I enjoyed reading about Alvin Eng’s childhood and I was able to relate to many of things he went through, I think this would be a great audio book, with the author narrating!

Thank you for this gifted copy! You can find Our Laundry, Our Town on our Amazon storefront!🧜🏼‍♀️🌺

Wonderous Reads, thanks for the marvelous review of OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN by Alvin Eng writer-performer! She is also offering a book giveaway, courtesy of Fordham University Press -- to enter, head over to Instagram for entry instructions. Good luck!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeUNQ4qv8Nk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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🎉 REVIEW & GIVEAWAY 🎉

Title: OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by Alvin Eng

💭 THOUGHTS 💭
I really enjoyed this raw, heartwarming, and inspiring memoir by Alvin Eng! Readers are taken on a journey through the author's upbringing in Flushing (Queens, NY) during the 1970s and how he came to become an author, playwright, and artist . He discusses his family's struggles along with his own, being raised between a cross of two very different cultures while trying to find his own place in the world.

The author shares his personal experiences, the good and the bad, with us in such a beautiful and captivating way. He depicts what it was like growing up Chinese American in a somewhat dysfunctional family with many siblings. I love the role that music played in his upbringing and how it influenced him. This memoir puts emphasis on the "American dream", and what this can mean to some, while also putting emphasis on the Asian dream.

As an Asian American, this memoir is so very relatable as my family went through some similar struggles. It's about finding your place in the world, which isn't always easy, while trying to balance family dynamics. If you're into memoirs, I would highly recommend this one!

🎉 GIVEAWAY INFO 🎉
Enter to win a copy of OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by Alvin Eng

TO ENTER:
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- Giveaway ends June 5, 2022 at 6:30 pm EST.
- Winner will be DM'd from this account only and have 24 hours to respond. I never ask for payment info. Be careful of scammers.
If all this buzz about Alvin Eng writer-performer's new memoir has made you eager to check out OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN, then head over to Instagram and visit Lady Bookette’s page. She’s hosting a , and you could get lucky!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeSS0eSrx-9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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I am partnering with and Fordham University Press to give away a copy of !

How to Enter (pick one):
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Additional Details:
💛 Deadline to enter 6/8/22 at 11:59 pm PST
💛 Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on my IG Story on 6/10/22

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“If you wept while reading the memoir Crying in H Mart, ached at the injustice in Minor Feelings, and laughed during graphic novel Messy Roots, then Our Laundry, Our Town is the sweet spot between these three.” - The Pundlit

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Ohh! It’s OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN time! Head over to Tina May Reads on Instagram - today’s virtual book tour stop - for the details: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd_EqgeLSn5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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CANADA & USA BOOK GIVEAWAY! 🎉 OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by Alvin Eng writer-performer is an illuminating new memoir that’s the perfect book to read this month for AAPI Heritage Month. It just came out on May 17! In this book Eng shares his experiences growing up in 70s and 80s as an immigrant and how the theatre impacted his life. Thank you to & Fordham University Press for my gifted review copy and for giving away a copy and for including me in this virtual book tour! Swipe for the full synopsis.
One lucky reader will win a copy of Our Laundry, Our Town!
To enter:
📕 Like & save this post & follow me
📗 Comment what you’re currently reading
📘 Bonus entry: tag a friend (Unlimited entries)
📙 Bonus entry: share in your stories & tag me & then comment “shared” on this post
Giveaway not affiliated with Instagram. Ends May 30, 2022. Good luck!
What a wonderful way to celebrate 59 years and 51 weeks of being with a two-part book launch and pre-birthday celebration. Wendy and I were so grateful to celebrate with family and friends from all walks of our lives...some whose Bar Mitzvahs I attended! We cannot thank you enough for being there last night and always. We are blessed to be on this journey together.

Thank you Fordham University Press, City Lore, Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York, ThinkChinatown and Rise and Resist for making last night possible.

Next in-person book events will be in Chinatown:
June 8 - Yu and Me Books
June 12 - 21 Pell St Community Center (with musical guest Skyler Chin)
More online events to be announced


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Thanks for shining a spotlight on OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN, Gloriana Wong Blog!
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As we continue to celebrate heritage month, I am honored to have been given the opportunity by to read a memoir by Alvin Eng writer-performer. Alvin Eng grew up in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s – back then, his was one of the few immigrant Chinese families to live there. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese Hand Laundry. Eng has created an illuminating time capsule of the Chinese-American experience, from the Chinatowns of the U.S to China’s motherland. Eng explores issues of identity, race, and societal expectations with marvelous humor, introspection and tenderness. Eng reconciles the push and pull of an insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life around him – from faux martial arts TV stars to punk rock and theater. In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the Counterculture and Civil Rights movements. These same systemic conflicts form the core of our current global reckoning on representation and identity.

By the 1980s, Chinese culture began to flourish in Flushing. Yet, Eng remained an outsider of sorts because he was one of Flushing’s few Chinese citizens who could not speak fluent Chinese. As a theatre practitioner and professor in the 21st century, discovering the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s seminal Americana drama, Our Town, became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage.

At City University of Hong Kong, Alvin and his wife, director/dramaturg Wendy Wasdahl, led a Fulbright Specialist devised theatre residency on the Chinese influence on Our Town. From this residency, the US Consulate Guangzhou invited Alvin to perform his Our Town-inspired solo, The Last Emperor of Flushing, in his family’s ancestral Guangdong Province of southern China. Learning to proudly tell his own story on stage helped to make him whole. Fordham University Press
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On today’s virtual book tour stop, the What Is That Book About blog features an excerpt from OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN by Alvin Eng writer-performer, courtesy of Fordham University Press.
The It’s Bibliotherapy blog joins the OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN virtual book tour today! Thanks for the spotlight feature on Alvin Eng writer-performer's compelling memoir available now by Fordham University Press.
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💫 Book Tour 💫

Our Laundry, Our Town by Alvin Eng
Pub Day: May 17th, 2022

What’s your favorite city to visit? 🏙 To me, there’s nothing like a long weekend in New York. Though I’ve spent most of my time in Manhattan and Brooklyn, this book is set in Queens—back in the 1970s. 🖤 Check out the details below.👇🏼

“Alvin Eng grew up in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s – back then, his was one of the few immigrant Chinese families to live there. 🇨🇳

“His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese Hand Laundry. In OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond, Eng has created an illuminating time capsule of the Chinese-American experience, from the Chinatowns of the U.S to China’s motherland. 🧺 Eng explores issues of identity, race, and societal expectations with marvelous humor, introspection and tenderness.” 💭

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