Look Who’s Morphing: An Afternoon With Author Tom Cho | 3rd September | LA

Author Tom Cho, who is currently staying at TOM House, will be reading from his fiction and participating in a Q&A discussion about his creative practice at University of Southern California on Wednesday September 3.

At this event, he’ll be interspersing readings from his fiction with some comments on a few other topics, including his interest in the work of Tom of Finland. Earlier this year, Tom alluded to the influence of Tom of Finland on his work in an essay published by Canadian national newspaper National Post (Part 1 and Part 2 of this two-part essay, “Tom and Me”, can be read online). This essay was informed by a four day stay he had at TOM House in February this year.

Look Who’s Morphing: An Afternoon With Author Tom Cho

Wed 3 September, 1-3pm

Kaprielian Hall, Room KAP 445, University of Southern California, 3620 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles

An un-named protagonist undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. This protagonist becomes Godzilla, a Muppet, Whitney Houston’s bodyguard, a robot that becomes a car, the Fonz and – in the climax of all climaxes – a 55-metre tall cock rock star who performs for the people of Tokyo.

Join author and performer, Tom Cho for a reading of his book Look Who’s Morphing, first published in Australia by Giramondo Publishing in 2009 and in North America and Europe by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2014.

Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public

Sponsored by University of Southern California’s American Studies and Ethnicity, Center for Transpacific Studies, Center for Feminist Research, Gender Studies, and Kaya Press

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Published: 26th August 2014

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