Tom Cho’s surprising, funny, sexy, postmodern short story collection Look Who’s Morphing is out now with Giramondo, ISBN: 9781920882549.
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Answers: Tom Cho
Auntie Ling
Of the many impulses that the act of reading evokes, there are two that are especially irresistible. These are: 1) equating a text’s narrator with its author, and 2) equating the narrator’s aunties [...]
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Steven Amsterdam – a ‘responsive’ interview
March 23, 2009 – 7:56 am
Read the LiteraryMinded review of Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming.
Prompts – LiteraryMinded.
Responses – Steven Amsterdam.
Beginnings
I was inspired by a few loose pieces in the news, from life, the partisan splay of the 2004 election in the US, and my nervous mind, so I wrote ‘The Theft That Got Me Here’. When I [...]
Josephine Rowe, a ‘Responsive’ Interview
January 7, 2009 – 7:50 am
LM ~ My first notes after I read East of Here, Close to Water – unedited:
‘You. He. She.
All the characters so close to memories – sensitive to the way they press upon the present.
Glimpses of a moment, rich – here and there. Empathy for a person – a man ‘howling on his doorstep’, a dancer, a [...]
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