Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish : essays / by Tom McCarthy.
"Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewrit...
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New York :
New York Review Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
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- 1 18 Semiconnected Thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, Fly Fishing, and Various Other Things
- 13 From Feedback to Reflux: Kafka's Cybernetics of Revolt
- 23 Get Real; or, What Jellyfish Have to Tell Us About Literature
- 35 The Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch
- 43 On Dodgem Jockeys: A Suggested Alternative Career for Writers
- 45 Meteomedia, or Why London's Weather is in the Middle of Everything
- 56 Nothing Will Have Taken Place Except The Place
- 71 Recessional - or, the Time of the Hammer
- 87 Richter Article
- 94 Stabbing the Olive
- 106 The Geometry of the Pressant
- 117 On Balls and Planes: An Introduction to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
- 135 Kool Thing, or Why I Want to Fuck Patty Hearst
- 139 Why Ulysses Matters.