Tom McCarthy's "The Making of Incarnation"
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Tom McCarthy, author of the contemporary classic, Remainder, as well as of the novels C and Satin Island, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also the author of the collection of essays Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish and of the literary study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and is the \u201cGeneral Secretary\u201d of the \u201csemi-fictitious organization\u201d the International Necronautical Society (INS), which has exhibited art around the world.\nMcCarthy\u2019s latest book is The Making of Incarnation, a novel that follows the hunt for a box that has gone missing from the archives of a time-and-motion pioneer named Lillian Moller Gilbreth. Gilbreth\u2019s studies in movement helped birth the era of mass observation and big data, but did she also discover the \u201cperfect\u201d movement, one that would \u201cchange everything\u201d?\nAlso, Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem, returns to recommend poet Desiree C. Bailey\u2019s What Noise Against the Cain.