Comments on: Tom Cho: a ‘responsive’ interview

By: Tom Cho » Four launches later

Tom Cho » Four launches later — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:07:02 +0000

...] (the latter being in Bali). There have also been various interviews, some already published (like this one with LiteraryMinded – AKA Angela Meyer and this one with writer, zinester and performer [...

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:21:32 +0000

I will have to check out the Nam Le one. I have his short story collection in a pretty hard back.

By: LiteraryMinded

LiteraryMinded — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:29:32 +0000

Hi Benjamin,

so glad you liked it. I’d like to think I’ve pioneered this ‘responsive’ format. But who knows. I love doing them There are others with Nam Le, Josephine Rowe and Steven Amsterdam on the blog if you want to take a squiz. Organising another at the moment…

Look Who’s Morphing is awesome, I recommend it highly.

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:04:09 +0000

Loved this inteview, especially the responsive format. Never seen it before.

And now I’ll have to add the book to my ‘to read’ list because it involves Gender fucking, which I happen to love.

By: carolynian

carolynian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:46:32 +0000

“And, in terms of the actual stories in my book, what should we make of the excesses to be found there, particularly those in the final piece ‘Cock Rock’? In this piece, the narrator is literally writ large in the text – he becomes a 55 metre tall cock rock star who is tied down with ropes and pleasured by twenty adoring fans in what might be read as a kinky version of Gulliver’s Travels. Again, what kind of author writes a piece like that – someone who is making it all about themselves, perhaps? So maybe Michael Jackson has his ‘Pop Gulliver’ and I have my ‘Cock Rock Gulliver’.”

I was muchos confused with ‘Cock Rock’ when I first read it (probably due to an unfamiliarity with Gulliver’s Travels.) Makes more sense now after reading the above.

By: lisadempster

lisadempster — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:39:13 +0000

Great interview. I love that the author appears on the cover of a short story collection. It so perfectly fits in with the themes of this collection and also Tom’s own career as a writer. A brave move and a good one… and it looks hot (love the bright colours).