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		<title>DJing on the wheels of steel at the Brimbank Literary Festival. Kind of.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is probably my last festival gig for the year, I&#8217;m going to be speaking at the Brimbank Literary Festival. This festival goes from 13-24 September and it has some good events in the program. The ones that especially caught my eye: Ana Kokkinos featuring in the opening event and a narrative in comics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A&#8217; is also for &#8216;Apps&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the release of two iPhone Apps that I&#8217;m associated with. It&#8217;s literature, but not as we know it. (Not that I ever knew literature very well, really.) One of the apps is by the crew from Sleepers Publishing. They&#8217;ve released a Sleepers Publishing app. Because I was published in a Sleepers Almanac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-reaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have finally finished a draft of the first piece that I&#8217;ve written for my new book. Oh, it was such a difficult piece to write. I feel embarrassed that it took me so long to write it, but I have also learned so much from writing it. I also reckon that what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s my pity party and I’ll cry if I want to</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently struggling with writing the ending of this story. Dolly Parton&#8217;s version of &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221; is my mournful soundtrack.]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing&#8230; The Whole Shebang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops. I forgot to mention here that I&#8217;m speaking at the Melbourne Writers&#8217; Festival tomorrow. (It wasn&#8217;t part of a prank &#8211; I genuinely forgot.) I&#8217;ll be speaking for half an hour about applying for arts funding. Here are some details for the event: Publishing&#8230; The Whole Shebang A day-long overview of the complete spectrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting closer</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/getting-closer</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written 3605 words so far for this story, the first one in the new book. It is certainly one of the most difficult pieces I&#8217;ve ever written. I should have noticed a red flag of warning when I began reading all those articles about the indescribability of God. Oh well. Anyway, today, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever had a really ambitious idea for a book?</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/ever-had-a-really-ambitious-idea-for-a-book</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some hours, later&#8230; Update:]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Bay Writers Festival (the short-short version)</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/byron-bay-writers-festival-the-short-short-version</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been so busy getting ready to move house that I forgot to mention &#8211; I&#8217;m going to the Byron Bay Writers Festival.  I was initially scheduled to appear on panels on Friday 6 August and Saturday 7 August, but house moving has unfortunately interfered with that. However, I will be going up for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Chinese-Australian but…</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/im-chinese-australian-but</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Borghino recently wrote a review of Wordlines, a new anthology of Australian writing edited by Hilary McPhee. I read this review today. Admittedly, I was reading the review with some self-interest because I have some pieces in this anthology (and, as it turns out, Borghino said something nice about them too: &#8220;Tom Cho&#8217;s surreal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An imaginary Q&amp;A</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/an-imaginary-qa</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago, I was asked &#8211; along with some other authors &#8211; to respond to an interview question for a feature story in the A2 section of The Age. The question was: &#8220;What question or questions do journalists never ask you, and what would your answer be?&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if my response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Yes function</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/my-yes-function</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing some research for this story I&#8217;m working on. This is from William James&#8217; (1960) The Varieties of Religious Experience. James is discussing different mystical states of consciousness and he notes the intoxicating effects of alcohol: The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esorcista!</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/lesorcista</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, some of the pieces from my book Look Who&#8217;s Morphing were translated into Italian. The translator, Elena Carletti (a wonderful intern at Giramondo Publishing), has also been very proactive in submitting these works to Italian literary journals. Coming up soon, two pieces will be published &#8211; along with some photos showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a way in</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/finding-a-way-in</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually intimidating -- in life and in the world of writing. When it comes to writing, the blankness of the screen or page can visually impress upon you that you are lacking -- lacking words, lacking foresight into the nature of the outcome, lacking the gumption to even begin. Over the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes writing has to make way for living</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/sometimes-writing-has-to-make-way-for-living</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a sudden development but I&#8217;ll be moving house in a few weeks. And now I also have the flu. And my computer is sick too. In short, I&#8217;m not able to write fiction at present &#8211; and this comes at a time when I really want to, when the piece I&#8217;ve been working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Stories</title>
		<link>http://tomcho.com/post/winter-stories</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a reading coming up. There&#8217;ll be mulled wine. Sounds good, eh? Asialink Winter Writing Series presents Winter Stories Thursday 15 July, 6:00pm-7:30pm Sidney Myer Asia Centre Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road University of Melbourne On a cold winter’s night, gather close for some good old-fashioned story-telling with all the right ingredients: mulled [...]]]></description>
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