Tom McCarthy

 
Tom McCarthy (born 1969 in London, where he lives and works) is a British artist and writer. He is general secretary of the International Necronautical Society, a semi-fictional avant-garde network, and has published numerous stories and essays. Remainder, his first novel, received the Believer Book Award in 2008.

See also Holding Pattern (edited by Tom McCarthy).

(external link : www.necronauts.org)
 
Tom McCarthy - Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer
Recessional – Or, the Time of the Hammer
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
British novelist Tom McCarthy questions the specific obsession with time in modern and contemporary literature, examining the works of Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. The essay is followed by a conversation with the author in which he discusses his own practice of writing.
Tom McCarthy - The Mattering of Matter - Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society
Tom McCarthy, Simon Critchley
The Mattering of Matter – Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.50 €
A collection of documents of Tom McCarthy's “semi-fictitious organisation” International Necronautical Society, cofounded with Simon Critchley.
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