Tom McCarthy: Satin Island

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tom McCarthy's Satin Island features a protagonist who, as his company's corporate anthropologist, has been given the enormous task of compiling a report summing up the modern era.

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0:37.1	Boots.
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0:51.8	but where would we be without books?
0:55.5	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblad, and this is Bookworm.
1:02.2	Today I'm very happy to have as my guest, Tom McCarthy, and his novel, Satin Island,
1:09.8	came out last year in paperback this year.
1:13.9	It's a very unusual book.
1:16.1	It's a very interesting book.
1:18.3	The cover, I think, does it all when it says that the book is a novel,
1:25.2	having crossed out a treatise, an essay, a report, a confession,
1:30.5	a manifesto, and in its blend of these possibilities, it seems to be very much the kind of
1:40.6	thing that you do with the international necronautical society, the INS.
1:47.0	Can you tell me what that is?
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