Chris Power
Freelance Writer at Freelance
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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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Chris Power
Tara Selter runs an antiquarian books business with her husband, Thomas. They live on the outskirts of a town in northern France, although Tara often travels to book fairs here and there, as she has done – to one in Bordeaux – when her life changes. On her way home she stops in Paris to collect some books for clients.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Chris Power
By 1965 Brian Friel was already finding success as a playwright – Philadelphia, Here I Come! would soon open on Broadway – but that same year he told Acorn, a Derry-based university magazine, “I don’t concentrate on the theatre at all. I live on short stories. This is where my living comes from. As for playwriting it began as a sort of self-indulgence and then eventually I got caught up more and more in it.
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2 months ago |
realcleardefense.com | Austin Bishop |Chris Power
Unipolarity is dead. America ceased to be alone on top of the world the moment her ruling class forgot a simple truth: wars are won on the factory floor. In the first few months of the war in Ukraine, the global cognoscenti declared the lesson of the conflict to be about Russian aggression and Ukrainian resolve. By the end of the first year, it was about the future of drone warfare. Today, we see the old has been made new: it is about production. Assembly lines. Factory floors.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
newstatesman.com | Chris Power
“If you look carefully,” WG Sebald told his students at the University of East Anglia, “you can find problems in all writers. That should give you great hope. And the better you get at identifying these problems, the better you will be at avoiding them.” As an academic Sebald enjoyed finding problems, particularly in writers beloved by the German establishment, and his analyses could be excoriating.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
msn.com | Chris Power
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I wrote a little bit about fictional approaches to death, via Jon Fosse’s Morning and Evening, for the Guardian https://t.co/udutR0ij76 https://t.co/AeL5Xn3eAH
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. https://t.co/5Oj2FacgA9
Can we please talk about Karl Ove Knausgaard’s incredible cat? https://t.co/USfK8doq8F
