Alastair McCartney Reads From The End Of The World Book
- When
- Tue May 20, 2008
- Where
- Books Inc. in the Castro
- Time
- 7:30pm - 9pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Book Stores, Gay, Gay Literary Arts, Gay Books, Gay Community
Description
Author Alistair McCarthy, will be reading selections from his new novel, The End of the World Book. This is no ordinary novel. An encyclopedia of memory-from A to Z-"The End of the World Book" deftly intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life as they both hurtle toward a frightening future. Alistair McCartney's alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, plagues to zippers, while barreling from antiquity to the present.In this profound book about mortality, McCartney composes an irreverent archive of philosophical obsessions and homoerotic fixations, demonstrating the difficulty of separating what is real from what is imagined.
Alistair McCartney was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1971. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Bloom, James White Review, and other literary journals, as well as in a number of fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies, including Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing (University of Wisconsin Press) and Between Men (Carroll and Graf.)
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