Novelist Tom McCarthy, twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and the author of Remainder, reads from his new novel, The Rhyl Poster (New York Review Books), which follows a jurist at one of Europe's highest courts who becomes a double agent. Check out the New York Times review here. Midtown Reader will be on site selling copies. 

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Event Details:
Date: Monday, November 2
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: William Johnston Building, Room G40
Admission: Free, with registration
Books: Midtown Reader will be on site selling copies of The Rhyl Poster 
 
Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. He is recipient of the Believer Book Award and the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, an Internationaler Literaturpreis Finalist, and a two-time Booker Prize Finalist. He is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. His new novel, The Rhyl Poster, is published in October 2026. Since 2022 he has held the position of Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute New Mexico. Originally from London, he now holds joint Swedish-British citizenship, and lives in Berlin.
 
The visit is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program; Literature, Media, and Culture; the Department of English; German; the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics; and the Winthrop-King Institute, with support from the Honors Program, the Humanities Center, and the Caldwell Chair and the Frances Cushing Erwin Chair.