{"id":18695,"date":"2010-01-05T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2010-01-05T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:50:26","slug":"the-novel-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-novel-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Novel of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom McCarthy<\/a>‘s Remainder<\/em> features among the Village Voice<\/em><\/a> and the (Canadian) National Post<\/em><\/a>‘s books of the decade:<\/p>\n

“If only for a fleeting moment, Remainder<\/em>, 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<\/em> stands out, perfectly capturing the fears and anxieties of the decade” – Dan Wagstaff, Raincoast Books<\/a> (National Post<\/em>)<\/p>\n

The novelist will talk to Jonathan Lethem<\/strong> about his new novel Chronic City<\/em> at LRB Bookshop<\/a> on 7th January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

McCarthy<\/strong> will also be talking (alongside AS Byatt<\/strong> and Aleksander Hemon<\/strong>) about how European fiction has influenced English fiction in general as well as his own work in particular at the South Bank Centre<\/a> on 18th January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finally, he will be appearing at the Grand Palais<\/strong><\/a> in Paris (“L’OuLiPo et le monde de Christian Boltanski”) on 29th January<\/strong>, with Hans-Ulrich Obrist<\/strong> and Jacques Roubaud<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}