Patrick Anson is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He studies 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction and is writing a part-ethnographic, part-literary-critical dissertation on contemporary cultures of reading.
Patrick Anson
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McCarthy’s Perpetual Motion Scam
Tom McCarthy hasn’t evaded the literary brand: if you continually say nothing, “saying nothing” becomes what you, the novelist, say.
