Tom McCarthy is as much a grave robber as he is a writer. And being good at one helps him to be better at the other. If that sounds a little melodramatic, I’m confident that McCarthy himself would take it a step further, questioning the difference between literary creation and the plundering of cultural artifacts altogether. McCarthy’s writing process is to literally exhume forgotten relics and surreptitiously display them in new contexts. Imagine the British Museum and you have a pretty good idea of how McCarthy’s literary output is structured.
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