title: Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays
author: Tom McCarthy
description: &ldquo;[Tom McCarthy] is one of the few writers who not only illuminates his subject matter but also takes our understanding down new paths. There is an enormously wide frame of reference here, from Aristotle to MC Hammer, and it never feels forced.&rdquo; &mdash;Nicholas Lezard, <i>The Guardian</i><br><br>"Perhaps only in a Tom McCarthy essay would profound philosophical insight be pulled from both William Faulkner and M.C. Hammer. Such is the brainy, playful and always subversive power of McCarthy's first collection, <i>Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish</i>&hellip;.[McCarthy is] an adept stylist, in the vein of Nabokov, and never fails to deliver dazzling twists of language and meaning. Each essay impresses with the author's preternatural intelligence. <i>Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish</i> will entice lovers of art and literature." &mdash;Scott Neuffer, <i>Shelf Awareness</i><br><br>"Reading <i>Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish</i> is like receiving a map of all the space that art, literature, and culture have carved out for each other. . . . This is the kind of book that deepens your appreciation of the subjects you&rsquo;ve previously encountered, and sends you to seek out the ones you haven&rsquo;t." &mdash;Gabe Habash, <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review<br><br>"Stimulating, intellectually exciting, and highly imaginative." &mdash;<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred review<br><br>&ldquo;McCarthy&rsquo;s fiction and nonfiction aim to skewer an ideology of authenticity that is fed and watered by a certain humanist conception of literature.&rdquo; &mdash;Simon Critchley<br><br>&ldquo;McCarthy&rsquo;s crisp, clean prose is stimulating, his concepts original and his visual imagery powerful.&rdquo; &mdash;Layla Sanai, <i>The Independent</i>
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  Nuclear Jellyfish
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tim Dorsey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  _Hammerhead Ranch Motel_
  
  _Orange Crush_
  
  _Triggerfish Twist_
  
  _The Stingray Shuffle_
  
  _Cadillac_ _Beach_
  
  _Torpedo Juice_
  
  _The Big Bamboo_
  
  _Hurricane Punch_
  
  _Atomic Lobster_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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