Murnane: Emmett Stinson in conversation with Geordie Williamson

1 Sep Friday Starts 05:30PM

Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS 7000

A window into the writing of one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, Gerald 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.

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, and co-author of Banning Islamic Books in Australia. He is a co-founder and former president of the Small Press Network and served on the federal Book Industry Strategy Group. His essays and fiction have appeared in the like of Overland, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Melbourne Age, The Monthly, and Meanjin.

Geordie Williamson has been chief literary critic of The Australian since 2008 and is publisher-at-large at Pan Macmillan Australia. His book about neglected Australian authors, The Burning Library, was published in 2012, and we’re very excited to know he’s got another in the pipeline.

Join Emmett and Geordie at the Afterword Cafe.

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