Episode 487 - Alvin Eng
Playwright, performer and acoustic punk raconteur Alvin Eng joins the show to celebrate his new memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham University Press). We get into his Chinese-American upbringing in the 1960s/70s, his evolut…
September 2022-10th Anniversary
Author Alvin Eng’s memoir Our Laundry, Our Town; Women embracing their roots and going gray; Asian Americans speak out against social injustice with “Free Chol Soo Lee”; Family of taekwondo champions; Plus we visit NY’s Burmese community.
Exploring Diasporas in a Nigerian Odyssey and a NY Memoir
On this episode of Book It with CA, Carol Anne chats with fellow CUNY TV host Abi Ishola-Ayodeji about her debut novel Patience is a Subtle Thief, and guest host Ernabel Demillo talks to playwright Alvin Eng about his memoir, Our Laundry Our Town!
Tales of the Eng Dynasty
Alvin Eng’s long, strange trip began in his family’s laundry in Flushing (presided over by his Cantonese opera-singing “Empress Mother”). From there, somehow, he became an adolescent punk rocker and then a downtown playwright and storyteller inspired by a delayed embrace of his …
Listening with Alvin Eng, Playwright & Author
In this episode I talk with Alvin Eng the author of "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond." He tells us about his experience living in a home where Chinese and English were both heard, how that defined his love for rock and roll and shaped h…
Our Laundry, Our Town with Alvin Eng and Shoshana Greenberg
In this episode, playwright and memoirist Alvin Eng joins Shoshana Greenberg of the Thornton Wilder Society to discuss his book Our Laundry, Our Town. Eng reflects on growing up as the son of Chinese immigrants in 1970s Flushing, Queens—balancing life inside his parents’ hand laundry with the turbu…
Why AI value delivery is banking's next competitive edge
Alvin Eng, UOB’s Head of Enterprise AI, joins host Prakhar Sureka to unpack how banks can measure AI value, scale pilots, and treat governance and guardrails as growth enablers.
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