Chris Power

Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 31, 2023 at 10:22 UTC

This afternoon on Open Book at 4pm, @chrispower.bsky.social, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Aminatta Forna and I talk beginnings and endings. It felt a very special programme as we recorded it - I hope you agree. Here’s the link to listen live or afterwards. Happy new year all x www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 24, 2023 at 12:32 UTC

In a few years, when my next collection comes out. Of course there’ll be several renaissances before that

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 24, 2023 at 11:41 UTC

On Christmas Day at 5 pm you can hear some of the highlights from Open Book in 2023, featuring Bret Easton Ellis, Zadie Smith, Sasha Hemon, @naomialderman.bsky.social, Adam Thirlwell, Eleanor Catton and more on migration, AI, George Eliot, nostalgia, and the death, or otherwise, of the novel.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 23, 2023 at 16:15 UTC

I hate queue-jumping, but apologies to the rest of the to-read pile

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 19, 2023 at 11:12 UTC

‘like every writer, he measured other men’s virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do’ - from ‘The Secret Miracle’ by Borges

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 10:59 UTC

I love this: JG Ballard on the future of the novel/the unknowability of others (from a Guardian book review, 2002, and included in Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007)

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 09:32 UTC

Yes, wonderful!

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 13, 2023 at 10:57 UTC

Posters for the original production of No Man’s Land, NT at the Old Vic, 1975

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 10:42 UTC

Lauren Oyler on Berlin/everything

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:29 UTC

Peter Hall’s Diaries

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 11:20 UTC

Pissed, Harold Pinter takes a taxi

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 08, 2023 at 11:27 UTC

Yesterday I spent a joyous hour talking beginnings and endings with the excellent @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Aminatta Forna (dialling in from Georgetown). Trainspotting! The English Patient! James Joyce! Hear it on the New Year’s Eve edition of Open Book.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 05, 2023 at 15:23 UTC

Harold Pinter’s haircut

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 01, 2023 at 09:55 UTC

Stewart Lee once asked Alan Moore why he began his first novel with 20 pages of unintelligible Neanderthal speech. ‘To keep c***s out,’ he said. Happy 70th, Alan.

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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 29, 2023 at 10:45 UTC

No good writer is confident of their ability

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