Shane Anderson
Shane Anderson is the author of After the Oracle, Or: How The Golden State Warriors’ Four Core Values Can Change Your Life Like They Changed Mine (Deep Vellum), Études (Broken Dimanche Press), and several chapbooks. Published work in various forms can be found in various places (032c, LARB, The Nation, Ugly Duckling Presse, and elsewhere). He is the translator of The Great Nowitzki (Norton), Ulf Stolterfoht (Triple Canopy), Henrike Naumann (Bierke), and many of today’s leading German-language poets. Another translation is forthcoming with isolarii in 2027 and he is a 2025 recipient of a Kunststiftung NRW grant. Serving as senior Editor at 032c, he is also currently the managing editor of DOCUMENTA 16. Anderson lives in Wuppertal with his family.
Tamarisk Row
In a fictional version of Bendigo, Australia, a young boy grows up surrounded by horse racing, Catholic rituals, family tensions and private fantasies. Set in the late 1940s, Gerald Murnane's debut novel transforms the dusty streets and backyards of provincial Victoria into an elaborate geography of memory and imagination. A remarkable portrait of childhood in which the places we invent become as important as those we inhabit.
One of the best books to bring back the feeling of being young. Only rivaled by Patrick Chamoiseau's "Childhood."
Bendigo is obviously not a major metropolitan destination, but through Murnane, I could feel the heat of the streets and the cool touch of gardens on the shady sides of houses.
