Podcast appearances and mentions of Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane doesn't have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He's written 10 novels, several collections of short stories and essays, and a memoir about horse racing. Together these books represent one of the most formidable and singular bodies of work in literature. On this episode of Read This, Michael drives out to the Goroke golf course to chat with Gerald on his home turf.

In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss Australian master Gerald Murnane's 1982 breakout novel of place, country, and the nature of representation The Plains! Full episode on the Spine Crackers Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spinecrackers

Gerald Murnane doesn't have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He's written 10 novels, several collections of short stories and essays, and a memoir about horse racing. Together these books represent one of the most formidable and singular bodies of work in literature. This week, Michael drives out to the Goroke golf course to chat with Gerald on his home turf.Reading list:Tamarisk Row, Gerald Murnane, 1974A Lifetime on Clouds, Gerald Murnane, 1976The Plains, Gerald Murnane, 1982Inland, Gerald Murnane, 1988Emerald Blue, Gerald Murnane, 1995 Barley Patch, Gerald Murnane, 2009 A History of Books, Gerald Murnane, 2012A Million Windows, Gerald Murnane, 2014Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf, Gerald Murnane, 2015 Border Districts, Gerald Murnane, 2017 A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane, 2019 Last Letter to a Reader, Gerald Murnane, 2021You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Articles on Gerald MurnaneIs the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?An Idiot in the Greek SenseThe Reclusive Giant of Australian LettersSocials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Gerald MurnaneSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gerald Murnane doesn't have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He's written 10 novels, several collections of short stories and essays, and a memoir about horse racing. Together these books represent one of the most formidable and singular bodies of work in literature. This week, Michael drives out to the Goroke golf course to chat with Gerald on his home turf. Reading list: Tamarisk Row, Gerald Murnane, 1974 A Lifetime on Clouds, Gerald Murnane, 1976 The Plains, Gerald Murnane, 1982 Inland, Gerald Murnane, 1988 Emerald Blue, Gerald Murnane, 1995  Barley Patch, Gerald Murnane, 2009  A History of Books, Gerald Murnane, 2012 A Million Windows, Gerald Murnane, 2014 Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf, Gerald Murnane, 2015  Border Districts, Gerald Murnane, 2017  A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane, 2019  Last Letter to a Reader, Gerald Murnane, 2021 You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store.  Articles on Gerald Murnane Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? An Idiot in the Greek Sense The Reclusive Giant of Australian Letters Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane talks to Chris Power about his writing life.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Alpha, published by Erich Grunewald on July 1, 2023 on LessWrong. Summary In the first half of this essay, I recount two anecdotes. (The impatient reader can skip these.) First, Gerald Murnane tries, around Melbourne in the 1950s, to find a system that'll make him money betting on horse races. Then, Bill Benter, in Hong Kong in the 1990s, comes up with a system for picking horses that makes him nearly $1B. In the second half of this essay, I discuss alpha: In finance, alpha is (a) excess returns earned on an investment above the market when adjusted for risk, (b) an investor's ability to beat the market, or (sometimes) (c) a strategy or resource that consistently generates excess returns. Outside finance, alpha refers simply to someone's ability to beat their competitors, the edge they have over their rivals. Often what appears to be alpha is just noise. There are domains, like stock exchanges, where alpha is scarce, and other domains where it is abundant. Generally, the more valuable the object, the more crowded the field, and the harder it is to find alpha. Six very tentative ways of finding alpha are (1) seeking decision-relevant yet generally inaccessible knowledge, (2) making deep analyses, (3) extrapolating stable-seeming, high-entropy trends or lines of reasoning, (4) finding systematic ways that others act suboptimally, (5) seeking out places where one has relatively greater ability than everyone else and/or (6) making bets that few others can afford to make. Form-Plan In the long-ago 1960s, I knew a man who claimed to have been helped through a troubled period by his faith in psychoanalysis. When I myself was going through such a period, he urged me to read a certain huge book on the subject. I've forgotten the title but I recall the author's name, which was in gilt letters on the dark-green spine: Otto Fenichel. I read several chapters but I recall today only two short passages. One passage described the symptoms of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He could never walk more than a few paces forward without obeying an urge to look behind him for any beetle that was lying helpless on its back and needing to be set upright. The other passage was the opening sentence of a section on gambling. According to the learned author, the gambler gambles in order to learn whether or not God has forgiven him for his masturbation. Those are the opening sentences of the chapter, not on insect welfare, but on betting systems in Gerald Murnane's fairly Australian autobiography Something for the Pain (Murnane 2015, 89--100). Murnane goes on to write that, had the psychoanalysts "ever learned how much time and effort I've put into my search for a reliable and profitable betting system, they could only have concluded that I was either the all-time champion Onanist or, at least, the one of all the practitioners of the ancient art who felt the most guilty about it". Most punters probably have more in common with the beetle sympathiser than with the uneasy sinner: they're driven more by compulsion than scrupulosity. And yes, Murnane's motivation was (he reports), in his later years, simply the pleasure of discovery, and in his early years, more akin to that of the FIRE crowd -- to be able to "rent a comfortable flat in Dandenong Road, Armadale; to own a small car; to join a middle-level golf club; and to put together a library of a few hundred volumes of fiction and poetry, along with a select collection of long-playing records". During those early years -- this was in the late 1950s -- Murnane began to notice advertisements for a betting system called Form-Plan. Murnane had begun his life-long pursuit of profitable racing systems in 1952 when, at the age of 13, he began to search the Sporting Globe for patterns in the past form of winners; these efforts naturally worked pe...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Alpha, published by Erich Grunewald on July 1, 2023 on LessWrong. Summary In the first half of this essay, I recount two anecdotes. (The impatient reader can skip these.) First, Gerald Murnane tries, around Melbourne in the 1950s, to find a system that'll make him money betting on horse races. Then, Bill Benter, in Hong Kong in the 1990s, comes up with a system for picking horses that makes him nearly $1B. In the second half of this essay, I discuss alpha: In finance, alpha is (a) excess returns earned on an investment above the market when adjusted for risk, (b) an investor's ability to beat the market, or (sometimes) (c) a strategy or resource that consistently generates excess returns. Outside finance, alpha refers simply to someone's ability to beat their competitors, the edge they have over their rivals. Often what appears to be alpha is just noise. There are domains, like stock exchanges, where alpha is scarce, and other domains where it is abundant. Generally, the more valuable the object, the more crowded the field, and the harder it is to find alpha. Six very tentative ways of finding alpha are (1) seeking decision-relevant yet generally inaccessible knowledge, (2) making deep analyses, (3) extrapolating stable-seeming, high-entropy trends or lines of reasoning, (4) finding systematic ways that others act suboptimally, (5) seeking out places where one has relatively greater ability than everyone else and/or (6) making bets that few others can afford to make. Form-Plan In the long-ago 1960s, I knew a man who claimed to have been helped through a troubled period by his faith in psychoanalysis. When I myself was going through such a period, he urged me to read a certain huge book on the subject. I've forgotten the title but I recall the author's name, which was in gilt letters on the dark-green spine: Otto Fenichel. I read several chapters but I recall today only two short passages. One passage described the symptoms of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He could never walk more than a few paces forward without obeying an urge to look behind him for any beetle that was lying helpless on its back and needing to be set upright. The other passage was the opening sentence of a section on gambling. According to the learned author, the gambler gambles in order to learn whether or not God has forgiven him for his masturbation. Those are the opening sentences of the chapter, not on insect welfare, but on betting systems in Gerald Murnane's fairly Australian autobiography Something for the Pain (Murnane 2015, 89--100). Murnane goes on to write that, had the psychoanalysts "ever learned how much time and effort I've put into my search for a reliable and profitable betting system, they could only have concluded that I was either the all-time champion Onanist or, at least, the one of all the practitioners of the ancient art who felt the most guilty about it". Most punters probably have more in common with the beetle sympathiser than with the uneasy sinner: they're driven more by compulsion than scrupulosity. And yes, Murnane's motivation was (he reports), in his later years, simply the pleasure of discovery, and in his early years, more akin to that of the FIRE crowd -- to be able to "rent a comfortable flat in Dandenong Road, Armadale; to own a small car; to join a middle-level golf club; and to put together a library of a few hundred volumes of fiction and poetry, along with a select collection of long-playing records". During those early years -- this was in the late 1950s -- Murnane began to notice advertisements for a betting system called Form-Plan. Murnane had begun his life-long pursuit of profitable racing systems in 1952 when, at the age of 13, he began to search the Sporting Globe for patterns in the past form of winners; these efforts naturally worked pe...

There's not enough time in the day to spend it figuring out what to watch, hear and... do! So in Ross Recommends, Ross Stevenson does all the heavy-lifting for you with the help of experts and friends.In this episode, Ross recommends AFL with Andy Lee and the book 'Something for the Pain' with Andrew Rule. SPECTATE1:11 - Ross recommends AFL to Andy 23:12 - Andy recommends MEATER READ25:00 - Ross recommends 'Something for the pain' by Gerald Murnane to Andrew Rule 38:35 - Andrew recommends author Bill Barich to RossSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, the Spine Crackers are lucky enough to be joined by Sean, who is the creator of the fantastic YouTube channel Travel Through Stories, to discuss Australian author Gerald Murnane's reflective novel of the life of the writer, memory, and subjective experience "Barley Patch."

Libri: Albert Camus, La caduta (trad. Y. Melaouah, Bompiani)..Gerald Murnane, Una vita tra le nuvole (trad. R. Serrai, Safarà)..Moira Egan, Amore e morte (trad. D. Abeni, Tlon)..Musica: Beck, Loser..NIcolai, Morricone, La battaglia di Algeri, colonna sonora..Jacques Brel, La chanson dei viuex amants..Warren Ellis, Gauguin, colonna sonora..Nick Cave, Push the Sky Away..Herbie Hancock, HH and Friends, vol. 2..Beethoven, sonata per pianoforte n. 16 in Sol maggiore..Fesit, I Feel it All..David Bowie, Rebel rebel

Der australische Schriftsteller Gerald Murnane, ein Meister der Metafiktion, war lange nur in seinem Heimatland bekannt. Heute gilt er als Nobelpreiskandidat. Das Prosakunstwerk "Inland" aus dem Jahr 1988 ist ein früher Höhepunkt von Murnanes Erkundung der Landschaft zwischen Innen- und Außenwelt.Von Angela Gutzeitwww.deutschlandfunk.de, BüchermarktDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

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Aus der Bestenliste-Jury diskutieren die Literaturkritiker*innen Sandra Kegel, Gregor Dotzauer und Hubert Winkels mit Carsten Otte über Bücher von Jack Kerouac, Gerald Murnane, Julia Schoch und Emmanuel Carrère.

Murnane ist ein Star, den wenige kennen. Er hat sein gesamtes Leben im australischen Bundessaat Victoria verbracht, liest keine E-Mails und hat eine Schwäche für Pferderennen. „Inland“ ist, wie seine Bewunderer sagen, sein ambitioniertestes Werk.

Gerald Murnane ist hierzulande nahezu unbekannt. Dabei gilt er seit Jahren als Kandidat für den Literaturnobelpreis. In seinem Heimatland Australien gehört er zu den wichtigsten Autoren seiner Generation. Der Suhrkamp Verlag macht sich seit einigen Jahren um Murnane verdient: 2017 erschien Murnanes erster Roman "Die Ebenen", es folgten "Grenzbezirke" und "Landschaft mit Landschaft". Und jetzt ein Roman, der in Australien schon1988 erschienen ist: "Inland". Eine Kritik von Jörg Magenau.

Kike Martín vuelve a destripar un libro. En este caso una novela de Gerald Murnane titulada "Las llanuras", publicada por la editorial Minúscula. ...

Avtorica recenzije: Katarina Mahnič Bere Barbara Zupan

Gerald Murnane gilt als einer der wichtigsten Autoren in Australien. In seinem Roman "Landschaft mit Landschaft" verknüpft er seine Biographie mit intellektuellen Fragen nach dichterischer Wahrheit. Ein postmoderner Künstlerroman, der eine ganz eigene Sogwirkung entwickelt. Rezension von Tino Dallmann. Suhrkamp Verlag ISBN 978-3-518-22514-1 von Rainer G. Schmidt aus dem Englischen übersetzt 400 Seiten 24 Euro

Erzähl-Mäander, Essais, unentzifferbare Parabeln: eine neue Übersetzung führt tiefer in die rätselhaften Räume des grandiosen australischen Schriftstellers Gerald Murnane. Eine Rezension von Ulrich Rüdenauer.

Frouke van Dijke over 'Breitner vs Israels' in Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Katleen Van Langendonck over WoWmen! in Kaaitheater. Christophe Vekeman las 'De vlakte' van Gerald Murnane.

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode takes us back to the Australian Classics Book Club.The Plains opens on an unnamed narrator arriving on the plains with the intention of making a film that will show the plains as they have never been seen. Haunting the local pub, talking with plainsmen about their world, our narrator seeks the patronage and influence that will allow him to realise his epic project. Later in the library of his benefactor; a plains landowner we enter the world of his creative process and confront the strange realities that make up plains life.

Denis Scheck diskutiert mit Insa Wilke, Ijoma Mangold und Iris Radisch über Bücher von Annie Ernaux, Jörg Fauser, Gerald Murnane und Johan Harstad.

Pajtim Statovci on his novel Crossing and we explore the work of Gerald Murnane

Michael & Ethan are joined by Michael’s brother, Nick, to discuss The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton.In this episode:Michael breaks the Scotch.Ethan is proven thoroughly wrong by our new Patron, Alexis!The podcast turns into a hostage situation.Alexis recommends: Caitlin R. Kiernan.Ethan gets in a wrestling match over two cups.They see just a shadow of a shadow of Plato’s cave and its shadows.Michael fits this novel into the Hunger Games universe.Ethan recommends LatinDIctionary.net.Michael gets Schroedinger’s Cat shoehorned in.Shout-out to the History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast.Ethan ties it back to Gerald Murnane. Again.Their next book will be Jacques the Fatalist, by Denis Diderot. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)And Special Guest: Nicholas Lilienthal (@PokeRollNick)Music & SFX:"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.“Intermission” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Memoir Of War,based on Marguerite Duras's book “La Douleur” is set in Occupied France. Critical opinion has varied widely from 'dreadful' and 'empty' to 'masterpiece'. What will our reviewers make of it? King Hedley II starring Lenny Henry, has opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East Gerald Murnane's novel A Season On Earth tells the tale of a lustful teenager in Melbourne in the 1950s. It was originally published in 1976 and is now reissued as was originally intended; with two previously unseen new chapters Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham palace brings together more than 200 of his drawings from the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in over 65 years. When They See Us is a new series beginning on Netflix. Directed by Ava DuVernay which tells the true story of the 1989 Central Park Jogger case in which five juvenile males – four African-American and one Hispanic – were convicted of the crimes. They spent time in jail and were eventually cleared 25 years later Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Laura Freeman, Jim White and Lynn Shepherd. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra recommendations: Jim: Free Solo and Dawn Wall Laura: Barbara Hepworth/Ben Nicholson at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery Lynn: Don Giovanni at Garsington Opera Tom: BBC podcast Shreds

They will never not be talking about The Plains by Gerald Murnane. That’s because, The Plains is life, which means everything and nothing all at once.In this episode:Ethan is not a 14-year-old girl waiting for her date. Well, he’s not one of those things.They take the “No Girls” sign down from the door.With Ethan’s wife, they all get very dramatic.Michael gives Ethan an epiphany about the book’s religion(?)They talk about The Rules of the Game, which they talked about before.If we create a revolution, we didn’t mean to. (But seriously, Michael has no qualms with the psychological field.)Everyone knows how slot machines work. But they digress from slot machines to talk about women.They delete their 1/2-hour conversation on “Library of Babel.”Michael doesn’t want to talk about this book anymore.(The book mentioned at about 52:45 is Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson.)(It’s Arthur, not Richard: Arthur Lessac. And yes, Michael knows he modified this exercise.)Their next book will be Soulless by Gail Carriger. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.“Old Knight” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Check out what Michael & Ethan think of The Plains by Gerald Murnane. There is actually a lot to be said about this book, although to look at its cover, you wouldn’t think so.In this episode:Michael pushes a button in the air.They’ve been writing/performing an absurdist play for the last 3 years.They get sidetracked by the Strange Planet comic strip.Ethan starts them off on a very biographical note, but it’s not necessary. Then he asks a very bad question.Someone needs to play a Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch drinking game.Ethan discovers how weird the world of homeschooling is.Michael invents a word, something about the opposite of nihilism.They talk about the finer points of geometry, in the differences between arcs and slides.It’s Midwestern, and Downton Abbey, and something else, all rolled together.Their next book will be Soulless by Gail Carriger. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.“Intermission” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Stella prize winning author Carrie Tiffany on her latest Exploded View, Gerald Murnane on the release of A Season on Earth in full and the book to film adaptation of The Big Sleep.

They were given a homework assignment by Nathaniel Rhein:Book/Story/Poem/Essay Assigned: Tobias Wolff’s short story “Smokers”available online athttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1976/12/smokers/306060/Homework Assignment: What *really* happens in the story? Is the narrator reliable?(Context: This is an assignment I was given many years ago in an undergraduate logic/English class. In the ensuing debate, I disagreed with my professor (and his favorite student), and he gave me a poor grade as a result. I want to see if you guys come up with my answer or my professor's answer.)The guys come up with about 84 different interpretations, but read and let them know what you think! At the end of the episode, they respond to some more listener feedback, also from Nat.In this episode:They pretend to know what the Purge is.Michael’s drink is wrong.They analyze the professor and assignment before they do the assignment.Ethan doesn’t read books.Ethan talks about dogs, from experience.Michael gives a principle of literary interpretation.Ethan brings up Schroedinger’s Cat.As usual, Ethan isn’t willing to be tied down.Ethan gives us A’s on the homework.Michael quotes Aladdin.#GameofThronesCastSurprise, surprise, Michael & Ethan are basically the same person.Their next book will be The Plains by Gerald Murnane. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission.“Intermission” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

The pair finishes they’re discussion of Things not Seen by Andrew Clements. Ethan threatans to take his toys and go home, but he can’t quit the podcast, Michael, or you, the gentle listener. So he sticks it out to give you his thoughts on this YA Sci-Fi adventure.Bonus: at the end, they talk about Jonathan Franzen’s “10 Rules for Novelists.”In this episode:Nothing of value is said in the first 5 minutes.They debate the finer points of interrogatives and declaratives.There’s also a long debate about the classic dilemma: Invisibility or Flight?Michael wants to make things as ambiguous as possible.Spoilers for The Fault in Our Stars.They have abundant theories about why antiquated internet technologies failed.They prove they’re as hip as the cool kids….Michael shows his age.There is a wife-intrusion, and they don’t talk about MBMBaM.We learn why it took Ethan so long to read Harry Potter.Ethan mangles the Bible, and Michael fixes it. Hebrews 11:1.Look up Sean Patrick Little.Ignore the 10 Rules for Novelists.Their next book will be The Plains by Gerald Murnane. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.“Intermission” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Take a break from Things not Seen by Andrew Clements, and listen to Michael & Ethan responding to the responses of the listeners! Thanks for sending your feedback, and as always, you’re encouraged to give more! In this episode:Michael makes up a word, probably.They’re not sponsored by The Bitter Truth.Write-Only MemoryWhat makes a villain? What makes an anti-hero? What makes a feminist? Ethan knows.SPOILERS - - - but you don’t know what for….We all can’t forgive George Lucas.We could almost spend another hour on Station Eleven.After Things Not Seen, their next book will be The Plains by Gerald Murnane. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

When you distill meanness down into a glass, what do you get? We’re discussing Things not Seen by Andrew Clements, a classic from Michael’s youth.Michael tells only some of the listeners to go suck an egg. That’s not you.Ethan quotes Hezekiah 16:4.Michael makes an Alzabo Soup transition.Michael confesses, he hasn’t finished this book.Ethan whispers secrets, while Michael goes to get books.How many horrible ways can Ethan mispronounce “Sophocles”?They talk about a stack of other books.Ethan offends Andrew Clements.This is what Ethan was trying to pronounce.Their next book will be The Plains by Gerald Murnane. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.Donate to our Patreon!Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) andEthan Bartlett (@bjartlett)"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission."The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License."Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.“Intermission” by Unthunk. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Anna and Amanda discuss the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, including the fiction winner Border Districts by Gerald Murnane. Our book of the week is The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman.  Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards Best Novel, to be announced on 7 January 2019, and described by The Australian as 'a book of perfection', Amanda loved this novel and its dissolute hero, Pinch.  We are taking a break and will return in the new year.  Follow us! Facebook: Books on the Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @amandalhayes99 Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits: Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz  

Gerald Murnane is an Australian author who has written over a dozen books, including The Plains and most recently, Border Districts. He worked as a teacher during the early part of his career and he is a great fan of horse racing. Murnane is the recipient of the Patrick White Award (1999), the Melbourne Prize for Literature (2009), the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Award for Innovation in Writing (2010), and a special award in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards (2007).

Was kann man sehen, wenn sich der Blick nicht mehr auf äußere, sondern auf innere Landschaften richtet? Gerald Murnane entdeckt Erstaunliches, einen literarischen Kosmos, den er auch in seinem jüngsten Buch genauestens vermisst.| Übersetzung von Rainer G. Schmidt , Bibliothek Suhrkamp, 232 Seiten, 18 Euro.| Rezension von Ulrich Rüdenauer.

Our events manager Chris Gordon chats with Chris Gregory about making a record with Australian author Gerald Murnane.

Edited highlights of the Chat 10 Looks 3 Live show at the Tivoli in Brisbane on 12 May 2018. (Part 1)A percentage of the proceeds from all our shows goes to charity, in Brisbane to: (1) Care2Achieve Scholarship for Young Women Leaving Care (2) Second ChanceGerald Murnane: the Australian writer who could be the next Nobel Prize winner - produced by Callum Denness (ABC 7.30, 2018 May 8)Collected Short Fiction - by Gerald MurnaneSomething for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf - by Gerald MurnanePrivate Geography: This American Life: Ep 624. Ira talks to Australian novelist Gerald Murnane and Helen Garner (2017, September 1)A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - by James ComeyFormer FBI Director James Comey talks to Leigh Sales (ABC 7.30, 2018 April 19)The Death of Stalin (2018) - Directed by Armando Iannucci (Official trailer via YouTube)Borg Vs. McEnroe (2018) - Starring Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason (Official trailer via YouTube)Justin Langer appointed Australian cricket coach - interviewed by Leigh Sales (ABC 7.30, 2018 May 3)Darkest Hour (2017) - starring Gary Oldman and Ben Mendelsohn (Official trailer via YouTube)It's 9pm, Time for you to Leave Pyjamas - photo courtesy of GwenThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - Written and Directed by Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring - Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson. (Official trailer via YouTube)The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) - Starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, and Jessica Brown Findlay (Official trailer via YouTube)The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie BarrowsThe Handmaid's Tale: Season 2 - Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes (Official Trailer via YouTube)Isle of Dogs (2018) - Written and Directed by Wes Anderson (Official trailer via YouTube)Accidentally Wes Anderson: Website and InstagramTim Curry introduction and "Sweet Transvestite" - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (via Vimeo)The Greatest Showman soundtrack - via Atlantic Records on YouTubeThe Frump Nighties - photos via Bec SharkeyLove You Brisbane - Kim Durant 1983 (via YouTube)SA Going all the Way - Logo (via Where Words Fail Blog)

Gerald Murnane, an author from Australia, has written over a dozen books including The Plains and most recently, Border Districts. He worked as a teacher during the early part of his career and he is a great fan of horse racing. Gerald Murnane was also a recipient of the Patrick White Award in 1999, A special award in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2007, won the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2009, and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2010 Award for Innovation in Writing.

Recorded live at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Saturday 16 September, 5pm session.Lyrics to Leigh Sales' song - performed by BreakthruThe Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) - Dr Sebastian KingDior exhibition - National Gallery of Victoria (27 Aug - 7 Nov 2017)Dior and I - 2015 DocumentaryThe House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture - by Kate SomervilleJohanna Hicks dressed for the white tie event - (with thanks to Augusta Zeeng for the dress!)Truth - by Peter TempleThe Departed - starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt DamonFirst Person - by Richard FlanaganCodename Iago : the story of John Friedrich - by John Friedrich with Richard FlanaganI was Russell Crowe's stooge - by Jack Marx (SMH, June 7, 2006)Ghosting - by Andrew O'Hagan (London Review of Books, 6 March 2014)The Secret Life: Three True Stories - by Andrew O'HaganThis American Life (624) Private Geography - Ira Glass talks to Gerald Murnane and Helen GarnerLoaded - by Christos TsiolkasThe Slap - by Christos TsiolkasBarracuda - by Christos TsiolkasPicnic at Hanging Rock - by Joan LindsayThe Passion - by Jeanette WintersonOranges are Not the Only Fruit - by Jeanette WintersonThe Muppets Christmas Carol - 1992Grace and Frankie - featuring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda