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Tom McCarthy talks about his Black Box Transmitter exhibit and about the art/writing interface.

A short video clip in which Tom McCarthy talks about Georg Trakl.

In the same way that Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy tells its story through architecture in book form, Remainder is an art installation disguised as a brilliant novel.

Tom McCarthy’s Remainder receives The Believer’s fourth annual Book Award.

All the latest news concerning Tom McCarthy’s artistic, literary and promotional activities.

Tom McCarthy will be reading his latest short story “Kool Thing, or Why I Want to Fuck Patty Hearst” at Foyles on 5 April as part of the London Short Story Festival.

Using the form of a White Paper, it’s an irreverent report on the art world and its follies, written by a Martian.

Tom McCarthy will deliver his “Red Paper on Terrestrial Art” to the Alien Affairs Committee of Mars at the Barbican in London on 20 March.

A Short Story Festival, organised by Tales of the Decongested (who celebrate their fourth birthday) and Apis Books (who brought out the Tales of the Congested anthology), will take place at Foyles in London on 5 April as part of Get London Reading 2008. Tom McCarthy will read at 2.55pm on the dot.

Tom McCarthy and Rod Dickinson’s Greenwich Degree Zero installation features in the History Will Repeat Itself exhibition in Berlin.

His knack of harnessing bold ideas to offbeat wit and close-focus storytelling skills makes McCarthy one of the fictional finds of the decade.

Men in Space is one of The Independent’s books of the year.

Remainder features among the best books of the year lists of the New York Times and Publishers Weekly.