Cleo Qian

Jul 24, 2024 | theguardian.com | Cleo Qian

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: I’ve long nursed vague plans of moving back to China for a few years, to solidify my place there. But with each year that passes in the US, such a move gets harder and harder to make. By Cleo Qian How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent.

Apr 3, 2024 | camillehernandez.substack.com | Cleo Qian

When I tell you that my birthday is the same day as James Baldwin’s, it’s not because I am boasting about my talent nor am I trying to walk in his shoes. It’s a plain spoken fact: I was born on the same day as this man who continues to change the world. I feel vulnerable when I share it, because there’s a part of me that wishes having the same birthday means I, too, am made of the same genius he is. There’s no relation and no correlation between us.

Nov 14, 2023 | time.com | Cleo Qian

Ephemera and desire dominate the narratives in Cleo Qian’s debut collection of short stories, Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go. Centering on the lives of Asian and Asian American women, the tales are steeped in the tensions between fantasy and reality, the external and internal, and technology and the natural world. The book’s scenarios oscillate between beauty and dread—a queer love story turns into an abusive power struggle, the desire for acceptance leads to a controversial double eyelid surgery.

Oct 15, 2023 | booklistonline.com | Cleo Qian

Aug. 2023. Tin House, paper, $17.95 (9781953534927). REVIEW. First published August 2023 (). “Constantly, they were in the process of becoming,” a character remarks. That perceptive observation resonates throughout Qian’s astute debut collection populated by disconnected young women in flux. Qian links four stories featuring Luna, who appears in the opening “Chicken. Film.

Aug 29, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Ai Yazawa |Cleo Qian

Reading Lists Cleo Qian, author of "Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go," recommends stories about the search for connection Women get lonely.