Julie Cadman-Kim – Michigan Quarterly Review

Julie Cadman-Kim

Julie Cadman-Kim is a writer and educator from the Pacific Northwest. Her work can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Witness Magazine, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.

Hunger and Home: A Review of Dur e Aziz Amna’s American Fever

What of tomorrow? Perhaps if you imagine a moment long enough, it begins to exist outside of time. The chai is always pouring. The tree never dies. It is raining forever. In Dur e Aziz Amna’s gorgeous debut, American Fever, readers can expect to find all the hallmarks of a bumpy adolescence—destructive confidence, crippling self-doubt, steamy crushes, […]

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What of tomorrow? Perhaps if you imagine a moment long enough, it begins to exist outside of time. The chai is always pouring. The tree never dies. It is raining forever. In Dur e Aziz Amna’s gorgeous debut, American Fever, readers can expect to find all the hallmarks of a bumpy adolescence—destructive confidence, crippling self-doubt, steamy crushes,

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Familiarity and the Narrative Ledge: A Review of I Live in the Slums, a New Collection by Can Xue

The narratives in each of the 16 stories in this collection vacillate between the micro—insects, rodents, birds, plants, and the macro—life, death, civilization, humanity. Can Xue’s prose, too, vacillates between playful turns of phrase and deadly serious subject matter to provide a constantly shifting narrative experience.

Familiarity and the Narrative Ledge: A Review of I Live in the Slums, a New Collection by Can Xue Read More »

The narratives in each of the 16 stories in this collection vacillate between the micro—insects, rodents, birds, plants, and the macro—life, death, civilization, humanity. Can Xue’s prose, too, vacillates between playful turns of phrase and deadly serious subject matter to provide a constantly shifting narrative experience.

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