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Steve Tomasula reading from TOC

Presented by University of Notre Dame Creative Writing Program at University of Notre Dame, Jordan Auditorium

November 6, 2010

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Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture (FC2);IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press); and VAS: An Opera in Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution that has recently been re-released in paper by The University of Chicago Press. His multimedia novel TOC is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press/FC2. Incorporating narrative forms of all kinds-from comic books, travelogues, journalism or code to Hong Kong action movies or science reports-Tomasula's writing has been called a 'reinvention of the novel,' combining an 'attention to society in the tradition of Orwell, attention to language in the tradition of Beckett, and the humor of a Coover or Pynchon.' His writing often crosses visual, as well as written genres, drawing on science and the arts to take up themes of how we represent what we think we know, and how these representations shape our lives. His short fiction has been published widely, and most recently inMcSweeney's, The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre. Recent essays on body art, literature and culture can be found in Data Made Flesh (Routledge), Musing the Mosaic (SUNY), Leonardo (M.I.T.), and numerous other magazines. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and directs in the program for writers at the University of Notre Dame.

See excerpts and images from this multimedia novel at www.tocthenovel.com.