Tom McCarthy (2015 Event)

Is Tom McCarthy a J G Ballard for the 21st century? Or is he just
bullshitting? McCarthy would probably claim he’s somewhere in
between. The Man Booker shortlisted author’s hugely entertaining,
densely imaginative novel Satin Island introduces us to U, a
‘corporate anthropologist’ commissioned to write an
epoch-defining Great Report, only to be overwhelmed by images and
information. McCarthy explains his ideas to Stuart Kelly in this
event, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book
Festival.