Chris Power
@chris_power
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). 2025 Booker judge.
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I wrote a little bit about fictional approaches to death, via Jon Fosse’s Morning and Evening, for the Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/dec…
Phenomenal writing advice from Anne Carson
At this year’s National Book Awards, the classicist, poet, and professor Anne Carson shared with us the author she recommends to everyone and the best writing advice she’s given.
In 2025 I’ve decided to just read
We’re thrilled to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 judging panel. Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by @ayobamiadebayo, @SJP, @chris_power and @kileyreid. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
‘@FitzcarraldoEds has acquired an "exciting" new trilogy by Nobel Literature Laureate Jon Fosse, set in a fictional fishing village in western Norway.’ Wonderful news. I’ll go back to a Norwegian fishing village as many times as Fosse will send me there.
My daughter wrote a haiku with the same plot as at least 3 Jon Fosse novels
Having been told more than once over the last couple of years that I’m young for a cancer patient, it’s nice to hear that according to Private Eye I’m also young to be the presenter of a books programme on Radio 4. The secret of youth: do/get stuff mostly older people do/get.
Out today: the first English-language collected edition of Roberto Bolaño’s brilliant, mysterious, endlessly rewarding short stories. It was an honour and a joy to write the introduction.
"In many ways Lowry is closer to Melville and Conrad than Joyce, but he creates his corner of Mexico in a manner similar to the Dublin of Ulysses: not by describing it so much as by building an alternate reality from language." theguardian.com/books/2011/nov…
I wrote about Hanif Kureishi and his extraordinary memoir for the @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
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Hanif Kureishi’s interrupted life
In 2022 an accident left the novelist paralysed. His blackly comic memoir, Shattered, is a devastating portrait of an imprisoned mind.
Writing: never entirely pleasant and no end to it, fortunately. Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album
Great remembrance of Paul Bailey by @leorobsonwriter in the @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Farewell, Open Book - thank you for the memories and the TBR pile. Congratulations @DiSpeirs @klockes @naylorbels for making such a brilliant and erudite programme. We will miss you.
Tune in on Sunday afternoon for the last ever Open Book, featuring @kamilashamsie, @mrsjaneymac and @TeditorTed talking to me and @johnypitts about their most memorable books of the last 25 years @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds
The end of an era. Raising a glass to the passion & expert brilliance of the team behind Open Book @BBCRadio4 @chris_power @johnypitts @octaviabright_ @elizabday @mariellaf1 @klockes @NicolaHolloway7 @allegramcilroy @naylorbels Emma Wallace @rickwoska @DiSpeirs et al 4pm today
Tune in on Sunday afternoon for the last ever Open Book, featuring @kamilashamsie, @mrsjaneymac and @TeditorTed talking to me and @johnypitts about their most memorable books of the last 25 years @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds
I wrote about Olga Tokarczuk’s oddly - but I think deliberately - off-kilter novel The Empusium for @GuardianBooks. Warning: contains sperm-squirting parasites. theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…
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