Cabinet Magazine presents 'The Threshold and the Ledger' with Tom McCarthy and guest presenters, NYC

Cabinet Magazine invites you to join Tom McCarthy—alongside guest presenters Jeff Dolven, Lisabeth During, and Heidi Julavits—for a launch celebration and presentation of his new book, The Threshold and the Ledger, published in September by Notting Hill Editions. 

A sustained reading of a single poem, “Salt and Bread,” by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, McCarthy’s book focuses on two of the poem’s central terms—the threshold and ledger—to pose a series of questions: Can writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary-state? A condition of ecstasy or ec-stasis, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how and by whom might such experience be recorded? 

Extrapolating on the poem’s theme using short film clips of their choosing, the named presenters—plus a mystery guest—will each contribute a prolegomenon toward a General Theory of the Threshold.

A Q&A will follow.

This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.