This is a collection of essays by the novelist Tom McCarthy, not the filmmaker and actor Tom McCarthy. I have previously read his novels Remainder, which I absolutely loved, and Satin Island, which I was lukewarm about in general. This collection is a kind of odds and ends collection, not either a focused effort in terms of theme or time period. The timeframe of the whole collection is an oddly situated 15 years from about 2002 to 2016. That time period involved a lot of discussion of […]
I recall reading, in The New York Review of Books, a couple of years ago, an article that jellyfish were taking over the planet.
Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy
