Tom McCarthy

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London, England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.surplusmatter.com

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Literature & Fiction

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Tom McCarthy — “English fiction’s new laureate of disappointment” (Time Out, September 2007) — is a writer and artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in a tower-block in London. Tom grew up in Greenwich, south London, and studied English at New College, Oxford. After a couple of years in Prague in the early 1990s, he lived in Amsterdam as literary editor of the local Time Out, and later worked in British television as well as co-editing Mute magazine.

His debut novel Remainder was first published in November 2005 by Paris-based art press Metronome. After becoming a cult hit championed first by British webzines (it was 3:AM Magazine’s Book of the Year for 2005) and then by the literary press, Remainder was republished by Alma Books in the UK...more

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Average rating: 3.34 · 6,835 ratings · 1,292 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	Remainder 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 2,690 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	C 3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 1,660 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men in Space 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tintin and the Secret of Literature 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transmission and the Individual Remix 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling all agents: General Secretary's report to the International Necronautical Society : transmission, death, technology. by Tom McCarthy, International Necronautical Society 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, Tom McCarthy (Introduction) 3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 2,524 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tom McCarthy (Introduction) 3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 646 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mind Factory by Louis Armand (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Slavoj Žižek (Contributor), Gregory L. Ulmer (Contributor) 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, Tom McCarthy (Introduction), Alvah C. Bessie (Translator) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 661 ratings — published 1899 — 41 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s literature’s USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.”
― Tom McCarthy

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“[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.”
― Tom McCarthy, Remainder

tags: authenticity, reality, repetition

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“All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.”
― Tom McCarthy, Remainder

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