Murnane

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A window into the writing of one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, Gerard Murnane Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most celebrated authors whose experimental and deeply idiosyncratic style has attracted rave reviews, including profiles in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Murnane's writing combines fiction with autobiography and returns obsessively to his particular and uncommon interests- horse-racing, marbles, stained glass, Catholic iconography, hermetic writers, and the Australian landscape. His fiction offers a window into what it means to be human, and how books and reading shape our self-understanding. Murnane examines the writer's recent work to explain both its significance to Australian literature and provide readers with a deeper understanding of his complex and self-referential fiction.

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Emmett Stinson is a Lecturer in Literary Cultures and Head of English at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Satirizing Modernism and the short story collection, Known Unknowns. He is a co-founder and former president of the Small Press Network and served on the federal Book Industry Strategy Group. He is also a co-author (with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde) of Banning Islamic Books in Australia. He won the Melbourne Age Short Story Award and was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. His essays and fiction have appeared in Overland, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Melbourne Age, The Monthly, Meanjin, and many others.