Never before published in the United States, Gerald Murnane's classic collection of literary and personal essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs , is the perfect introduction to, and gazetteer for, the imaginary worlds created by one of the greatest living writers working in English today. Murnane writes of himself as a boy making racehorses of his marbles, a pastime and obsession shared with Jack Kerouac; as a writer, working his first ten years in...