Gerald Murnane
CHILDHOOD SEX!
Dear Editor,
Shannon Burns’s splendid ABR Patrons’ Fellowship essay, ‘The Scientist of His Own Experience: A Profile of Gerard Murnane’, is rich in insights and pithy observations, plus some rather fine photographs (August ...
Something for the Pain: A memoir of the turf by Gerald Murnane
by Shannon Burns •
'The scientist of his own experience: A Profile of Gerald Murnane' by Shannon Burns
by Shannon Burns •
The town of Goroke (population six hundred) stands almost exactly between Melbourne and Adelaide, in the Wimmera region of Victoria. It is, in many ways, a typical small country town. If you drive there in the morning during late spring or early summer, you’ll need to slow the car to avoid kangaroos on the road. Magpies are everywhere. Horses and other livestock m ...