Chris Power
@chrispower.bsky.social
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). Booker judge 2025.
I’ve always been suspicious of the neatness of some essayists’ lives, almost as if… they’re making it up. Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days refuses to plane off the rough edges of her experiences, even if that makes them ungainly and difficult to present in a book. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I’ve always been suspicious of the neatness of some essayists’ lives, almost as if… they’re making it up. Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days refuses to plane off the rough edges of her experiences, even if that makes them ungainly and difficult to present in a book. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
Loved my conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk last night. Death and the Gardener is a beautiful novel
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Loved my conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk last night. Death and the Gardener is a beautiful novel
Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’
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Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’
A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez
Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power | The Booker Prizes
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books
thebookerprizes.pulse.ly
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
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Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...
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#eibf
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
I’m very happy the Booker longlist is now public and I can once again actually talk to people about great books I’ve read recently thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, and features a previous winner plus two debut novelists
thebookerprizes.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m very happy the Booker longlist is now public and I can once again actually talk to people about great books I’ve read recently thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Happy 80th birthday to the great man/writer/climber/lunch companion @mjohnharrison.bsky.social. It’s an honour to know you.
July 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Happy 80th birthday to the great man/writer/climber/lunch companion @mjohnharrison.bsky.social. It’s an honour to know you.
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Delighted that Booker judge @chrispower.bsky.social’s choice👇of favourite Booker book (for today) is Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room, which is one of my top picks too, and which was a shoo-in for my list☝️of genre-bending Booker books.
Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes
Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative
thebookerprizes.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Delighted that Booker judge @chrispower.bsky.social’s choice👇of favourite Booker book (for today) is Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room, which is one of my top picks too, and which was a shoo-in for my list☝️of genre-bending Booker books.
Me on reading a load of books. And Tolkien! And Galgut! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes
Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative
thebookerprizes.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Me on reading a load of books. And Tolkien! And Galgut! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Henri Troyat on the death of Chekhov, 15 July 1904
(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)
(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)
July 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Henri Troyat on the death of Chekhov, 15 July 1904
(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)
(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)
Reviewed a great book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn review – an extraordinary debut
This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody past
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July 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Reviewed a great book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Is it possible to have too many copies of The Book of Disquiet? The Richard Zenith translation (left and right) has just been reissued in a revised version. The text has also been reset, removing any and all unintended disquiet. An incredible book; one of the true greats.
July 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Is it possible to have too many copies of The Book of Disquiet? The Richard Zenith translation (left and right) has just been reissued in a revised version. The text has also been reset, removing any and all unintended disquiet. An incredible book; one of the true greats.
Raynor Winn has really fucked off my mum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
July 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Raynor Winn has really fucked off my mum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
A very enjoyable surprise to find Robert and Karijn in the @thetimes.com’s rundown of great literary marriages
June 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A very enjoyable surprise to find Robert and Karijn in the @thetimes.com’s rundown of great literary marriages
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‘Georgi Gospodinov was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. “The end of our training,” he has written, “coincided with the end of that for which we had been trained.’’’
@chrispower.bsky.social on one of Bulgaria’s most prominent novelists:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@chrispower.bsky.social on one of Bulgaria’s most prominent novelists:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Power · Postcards from the Past: Georgi Gospodinov’s Impossible Books
Georgi Gospodinov was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has...
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June 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
‘Georgi Gospodinov was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. “The end of our training,” he has written, “coincided with the end of that for which we had been trained.’’’
@chrispower.bsky.social on one of Bulgaria’s most prominent novelists:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@chrispower.bsky.social on one of Bulgaria’s most prominent novelists:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...