Tom McCarthy’s Remainder features among the Village Voice and the (Canadian) National Post’s books of the decade:
“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” - Dan Wagstaff, Raincoast Books (National Post)
The novelist will talk to Jonathan Lethem about his new novel Chronic City at LRB Bookshop on 7th January.
McCarthy will also be talking (alongside AS Byatt and Aleksander Hemon) about how European fiction has influenced English fiction in general as well as his own work in particular at the South Bank Centre on 18th January.
Finally, he will be appearing at the Grand Palais in Paris (”L’OuLiPo et le monde de Christian Boltanski”) on 29th January, with Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Jacques Roubaud.
First posted: Tuesday, January 5th, 2010.
