Tom McCarthy’s blurb for Tony O’Neill’s new novel, Sick City, out in July 2010.
News
A Weirdly Loveable Purgatorio (10/3/10)
McCarthy on Film (09/3/10)
Tom McCarthy will be talking about “his writing in relation to film” at the Architectural Association in London on Friday 12 March.
Shot By Both Sides (11/2/10)
Fascinating videos of Johan Grimonprez and Tom McCarthy at the Belgian premiere of Double Take at the Ghent Film Festival.
McCarthy Live (05/1/10)
Details of Tom McCarthy’s forthcoming appearances in London and Paris.
Book of the Decade (05/1/10)
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 (16/12/09)
Jonathan Lethem and Tom McCarthy at the London Review Bookshop on 7 January.
Der Roman ist tot, es lebe der Roman! (08/12/09)
«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 (04/12/09)
Tom McCarthy lists the books that have influenced him in Frieze Magazine.
Always Already (04/12/09)
The International Necronautical Society will hold a general meeting in London on Monday 14 December to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the INS’s founding manifesto.
The Same Roturns (25/11/09)
Art critic Anthony Downey and novelist Tom McCarthy discuss repetition in art, philosophy and literature. Tomorrow (26 November) at the Zabludowicz Collection in London.
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