Essays on literature pop culture and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen 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. Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish 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 goddes