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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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English

TYPEWRITERS, BOMBS, JELLYFISH

Tom McCarthy

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR of such novels as Man Booker Prize Finalists Satin Island and C, comes a new collection of essays, featuring previously published pieces and well as brand new works, focusing on such issues as art, literature, and language.

TOM MCCARTHY is the acclaimed author of SATIN ISLAND (Man Booker Prize Finalist), MEN IN SPACE, C (Man Booker Prize Finalist), REMAINDER, and TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE. He was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize from Yale University.
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Published 2017-05-01 by New York Review Books

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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is bursting with ideas; it is relentlessly curious, zeroing in on topics including David Lynch, soccer virtuoso Zinedine Zidane, “the time of fiction,” On Kawara, and the “displacement” that occurs when language meets weather. It encourages you to examine contradictions and to consider that art and life and literature are all part of a sticky web that retains traces of everything. Most of all, it encourages you to look more closely. Read more...