Very TRTR-related. Authenticity----goes out to Paul M. (and all still in the TR read)

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/18/2011 11:08 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> echoes...[Echo Court?]...fascinating
>   
> by Tom McCarthy......
>   
> Literature is about modes of inauthenticity&  always has been." Tom McCarthy interview @iwilltweet: http://t.co/YH0X8II/via @john_self
>   
> I believe Tom's american agent is Mrs. Pynchon.
>   
> And lots more fascinating stuff from him on the Guardian site..
>
Does she call herself that?  :-)

I only first heard of Tom  McCarthy last year when C came out and i got 
it on my Kindle.  That's just the letter C with no period.  Stands for a 
lot of things,  as might be expected.

There's a fairly extended Wikipedia entry for T McC considering he 
really isn't all that well known.

Apparently he' a terror in interviews.

Although he's mainly a writer he also does art in which he sees an 
advantage over writing because it provides an active space, a space of 
becoming active so that you can actually do the thing rather than just 
represent it. (according to the Wikipedia) May have some relevance for 
the McLuhan discussion.

TM's  quite avant garde and continental in his literature tastes and 
pronouncements.  The Brits don't like him much for that.

P