Last Letter to a ReaderIn the first days of spring in his eighty second year, Gerald Murnane perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is

well-wrought characters that suck the reader into their simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking lives

arranged anonymously (fully indexed at the back)

"An excellent anthology and critical

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It makes for a global solidarity against all the ideologies and globalisations that reduce humanity

Whispers and shadows abound

florist shops

such as Captain Scott of the Antarctic

translated by Khaled Mattawa (Greywolf Press

A woman who can speak with cats

the other a stranger

and a number of poems celebrating them by Robert Southey