Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.
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A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.
This award to a long neglected writer shows that there is still a place in Australian life for works of art that challenge us to think.
It could be claimed (and I am about to) that Gerald Murnane’s 1982 novel The Plains has the most compelling opening in Australian fiction: Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my…
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor (Affiliate), Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Design and Social Context, RMIT University
