Last Letter to a Reader John Ashbery

Last Letter to a Reader John AshberyIn 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

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fierce militancy and painful tenderness

the Runnymede Diggers

Hamdy el-Gazzar – Chapters from the novel Black Magic

Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism

drawing from the Bible

they proved acceptable

and OBRAS Artist Centre (Portugal)

seeking out ‘thin places’ where past and present collide

"The brilliant short story 'A Day in the Country' has a home in my heart

• Oliver Reynolds

perennially untidy