{"product_id":"typewriters-bombs-jellyfish-book-tom-mccarthy-9781681370866","title":"Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifteen 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. \u003ci\u003eTypewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish\u003c\/i\u003e explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e (how do you write after it?), \u003ci\u003e Tristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful \u003ci\u003eCain's Book\u003c\/i\u003e. The longer Recessional examines the place of time in writing--how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time--while the startling Nothing Will Have Taken Place moves from Mallarm  and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence--among them the artist Ed Ruscha's \u003ci\u003eRoyal Road Test\u003c\/i\u003e, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination--and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555432046865,"sku":"GOR008423586","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49756748841233,"sku":"CIN1681370867G","price":4.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49930095132945,"sku":"NGR9781681370866","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50023020101905,"sku":"CIN1681370867VG","price":6.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1681370867.jpg?v=1750764475","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/typewriters-bombs-jellyfish-book-tom-mccarthy-9781681370866","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}