On January 15, 2023 I gave a reading from Irresistible at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan. The moderator was Suvendrini Kakuchi.
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I read excerpts from three chapters, and spoke about the rise of kawaii in Japan, the cuteness of domesticated animals and the future of cute robots.
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Thanks to the FCCJ for hosting the event and to Suvendrini Kakuchi for moderating. She wrote an article about it for the FCCJ newspaper called “Too Cute,” which you can read here.
The exhibition “Cute: the Irresistible Rise of Cuteness in Contemporary Culture” begins January 24, 2023 at Somerset House in London.
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