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Spring 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 2 • Nonfiction |

A Messenger of Ill Tidings

By Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

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Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis’s creative work has appeared in McSweeney’s, AGNI online, Literary Review, Fiction International, and New York Quarterly, among other journals. Currently at work on a novel, he teaches Asian American literature at the University of Maryland. He is a founder of the arts nonprofit the Asian American Literary Review.

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