Satin Island (20 page)

Finally, I’m indebted to the point of near bankruptcy to the editorial skills of Alex Bowler at Cape and Dan Frank at Knopf; to Melanie Jackson in New York and Jonathan Pegg in London; and to Eva Stenram everywhere.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known in the art world for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as general secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His previous books include
Men in Space
,
C
,
Remainder
and
Tintin and the Secret of Literature
. In 2013 he was awarded an inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize from Yale University.