Tom McCarthy’s Music-Related List on Dusted Magazine

Every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists compiled by our favorite artists. This week: Tom McCarthy and Papercuts.

Tom McCarthy’s first novel, Remainder, to be released in America on Tuesday by Vintage, is exemplarily contemporary, not least for its history, which is as unrepresentatively representative, and soon to be as well rehearsed, as, alas, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s. Written in 2001, and admired by British editors but rejected by their marketing departments, Remainder circulated with McCarthy in the British art world and made its way to Paris, where in 2005 it was published in an edition of 750 by Metronome, a press modelled after Olympia (or, more accurately, an art project reenacting Olympia’s Parisian lit-porn one-two). When well reviewed back home, Remainder was reprinted for the mass market by Alma, a British independent, but not before the majors had: come begging; fucked off. Vintage’s editor in chief, meanwhile, read Remainder in the last of its Metronome edition and fell hard, and he now brings it to the U.S. in paperback. (read more…)