Caroline Clark

The Harare Review of Books Is Back with Its First Issue of 2026 and It's a Good One brittlepaper.com/2026/03/the-...

Excellently photographed (not) newts in the sandy shallows

first newts in the dew pond

And I see you have a story in it too. Will read soon!

I tried The Plains but couldn't get into it. This one – Inland – really spoke to me... Since then I've enjoyed Barley Patch and a few others.

Recommend @exactingclam.bsky.social's new issue (delighted it has my Murnane essay in it), not least for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social's essay on friendship and envying artists 👇🦋🐚

Myrtle spurge I’m told. Water droplets in end tips. Lush.

basking succulent

A way to stand alongside Palestinian writers from Gaza 👇

such things absolutely destroy me – sympathies

ICYMI my short short story SALO

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/salo/

'Telling stories is telling lies': this was Johnson's mantra, and he maintained that while his own close attention to matters of style and form made him something more than an autobiographer, there was no place for invention in the serious novel, no excuse for 'making things up'. Novelists, if they were to be honest (a quality he prized above all others), should confine themselves to one subject only: the simple facts of their own lives. 'How can you convey truth in a vehicle of fiction?' he asked, before concluding, with childlike directness, 'The two terms, truth and fiction, are opposites, and it must logically be impossible.' In his opinion, however, this did not stop him from being a novelist,

On the very last page of his next book, House Mother Normal, he would come clean by admitting that the whole novel is nothing more than 'a diagram of certain aspects of the inside of his skull'.

These two quotes from Johnathan Cole’s intro. I am struck by how this could be Gerald Murnane speaking.

There's a spot outside my house a widening in the road where cars must stop before moving on but when empty of traffic early morning it could reach anywhere beyond this moment of cessation.

Photo of give-way junction

poem and photo

Cover showing a face with closed eyes

HEIMAT by David Rose from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

The day lengthens the daffodil blooms soon a March moon to make you want more.

moon and poem

Cherry blossom blue sky

Oo

looking forward to reading on

Thanks! He wrote the intro to this edition.

I’m now shuffling the inner sections. Talk about chaos theory.

Ok, livestream reading: it’s very good

I didn’t know a thing about him. Best find ever.

The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson

NOTE THIS novel has twenty-seven sections, temporarily held together by a removable wrapper. Apart from the first and last sections (which are marked as such) the other twenty-five sections are intended to be read in random order. If readers prefer not to accept the random order in which they receive the novel, then they may re-arrange the sections into any other random order before reading.

Quite a find in my local library

Screen shot of the webpage with my essay featuring a photo of Gerald Murnane.

ICYMI

‘Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland'

with @exactingclam.bsky.social

www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

Grey pony side sitting in the sun, blue sky, skylarks singing

Wednesday pony

same bizarre situation here

Enjoy enjoy take it all in!

Enjoy it all!

That’s how I heard about it! Good job!

Oh, good to know! I know the other’s a keeper.

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, by Rebecca Gransden, Tangerine Press Darker With The Lights On, by David Hayden Little Island Press (you can still get copies online)

early birthday presents

it's very short, enough to cover a few sips maybe