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His Writerly Erkenntnis
Tom McCarthy lists the books that have influenced him in Frieze Magazine.
En dan op een dag was ik dronken op een feestje en…
Another Dutch interview with Tom McCarthy.
The First Pictures I Enjoyed
A Frieze Foundation podcast of a talk between Alasdair Gray and Tom McCarthy which took place on Friday 17 October 2008.
Agamemnon - a Play in Two Acts
Tom McCarthy’s Agamemnon - a Play in Two Acts appears in Everyday Genius courtesy of Lee Rourke who is curating the site throughout October 2009.
British Premiere of Double Take
The British premiere of Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take, written by Tom McCarthy, takes place at the BFI London Film Festival (15, 16 and 19 October).
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McCarthy Live
Details of Tom McCarthy’s forthcoming appearances in London and Paris.
Book of the Decade
If only for a fleeting moment, Remainder, a dark and spare novel about personal authenticity and murderous re-enactment, seemed to offer a creative alternative to the cul-de-sac of overwrought and twee novels emanating from Brooklyn (and creative writing classes everywhere). Sadly, the bloated and banal seem to have made a decided comeback (if they ever went away), but even so, the unashamedly intellectual Remainder stands out, perfectly capturing the fears and anxieties of the decade.
Remainder features among Village Voice and the (Canadian) National Post’s books of the decade.
Lethem & McCarthy in London
Jonathan Lethem and Tom McCarthy at the London Review Bookshop on 7 January.
Der Roman ist tot, es lebe der Roman!
«Everything must leave some kind of mark», ein Zitat aus «Remainder», steht denn auch als philosophisches Diktum über McCarthys Homepage, die eine ans Renaissancehafte grenzende Fülle von Tätigkeiten versammelt. Neben seiner Arbeit als Romanautor und – seit dem gewaltigen Erfolg von «81/2 Millionen» in England, den USA und Frankreich – als Vortragsreisender leitet Tom McCarthy das semifiktive Avantgarde-Netzwerk «International Necronautical Society». In dieser Funktion hat er unter anderem einen imaginären anarchistischen Anschlag auf das Greenwicher Observatorium als frühmodernes Medienereignis re-inszeniert: wie all seine Arbeiten zugleich absolut detailversessen und völlig phantastisch, mit «historischen» Zeitungsberichten und einem geisterhaften Stummfilm, der das brennende Observatorium zeigt.
There’s a massive piece on Tom’s work in the Swiss Neue Zuriche Zeitung.
His Writerly Erkenntnis
Tom McCarthy lists the books that have influenced him in Frieze Magazine.