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An Excerpt From Gerald Murnane’s “Sipping The Essence”
Even drunk on tepid beer we could not talk honestly. Our messages for one another were obliquely worded, or hidden behind childish mimes and antics. At a certain point in the evening Durkin would make...
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“The Breathing Author” by Gerald Murnane
From Delphic Intimations: Dialogues with Australian Writers and Critics, ed. Pradeep Trikha. 2007: Sarup & Sons, New Delhi. I have preserved Australian spelling and style. *** “The Breathing...
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An Excerpt From Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch
After the young man of the upstairs flat had first disclosed his plans for the Black Mass in the building of several storeys, it became the custom on every Friday and Saturday evening for all of the...
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“A Country On The Far Side of Fiction”— Riffing Over Gerald Murnane’s Barley...
Claude Lorrain’s “Landscape with Samuel Anointing David.” In my last riff on Gerald Murnane, I wrote about his book Inland, and that he wanted to “craft a universally mutable and relational ‘I.'” And...
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Books Acquired (1.8.2015)
I am taking a class titled 21st-Century Fiction: What Is The Contemporary? and three of the books in this photograph are part of the reading list. Absent titles are by Dan Chaon, Kathryn Davis, Ben...
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Do I explain myself? | Gerald Murnane interviewed at 3:AM Magazine
At 3:AM Magazine, Tristan Foster has interviewed Gerald Murnane. The interview is wonderfully prickly: “The question arouses a mild resentfulness in me,” Murnane replies at one point, before claiming a...
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“Murnane has not made the selling of himself an easy task”
This week’s New York Times Magazine offers a compelling profile of Gerald Murnane. The profile, by Mark Binelli, is an expansive and engaging look at the Australian author, whose cult will undoubtedly...
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Gerald Murnane’s Stream System (Book acquired, 5 April 2018)
Four stories into Gerald Murnane’s Stream System and digging it a lot. I’ll do some kind of post about some of the stuff in here soon. For now, here’s FS&G’s blurb: Never before available to...
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Blog about a devastating passage from Gerald Murnane’s story “Stream System”
The title of this blog post is Blog about a devastating passage from Gerald Murnane’s story “Stream System,“ but I admit that I wanted to put the word story under a bit of suspicion—rein it in with...
View ArticleIn order to be shown the sign (Gerald Murnane)
The shabbily dressed man spoke to his students at their first class as follows. The best service he could perform for them was to persuade them to give up writing fiction as soon as they had finished...
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Novels by Acker, Orlovitz, and Murnane (Books acquired 1 and 6 Aug. 2018)
I went by my favorite used bookshop to purge a bunch of books I’ll never read again and order Gerald Murane’s 1982 novel The Plains. I had finished most of Murnane’s collection Stream System, leaving...
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Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts (Book acquired, 20 May 2019
I picked up a hardback copy of Gerald Murnane’s latest novel Border Districts on something of a whim today. It’s only 120 pages in hardback, and, despite Murnane’s metamodernist mode, is probably a...
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I failed as a reader of fiction (From Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts)
Whenever I tried long ago to learn from books about the workings of minds, I was equally troubled whether I read fiction or non-fiction. In the same way that I struggled and failed to follow plots and...
View ArticleI consider myself a student of colours and shades and hues and tints (From...
I consider myself a student of colours and shades and hues and tints. Crimson lake, burnt umber, ultramarine … I was too clumsy as a child to paint with my moistened brush the scenery that I would have...
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Blog about some recent reading
It’s been pretty busy around Biblioklept World Headquarters this week. It’s the first week of my kids’ summer vacation, and they both had birthdays this week, as did I. I managed to read but not write...
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Three Books (that were my favorite books I read in 2019 that were published...
As I mentioned in my last “Three Books” post (on the books I enjoyed the most that I read in 2019 that were actually published in 2019), I don’t read too much recent fiction. I find the idea of making...
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