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Chris Power

Hackney
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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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Pressed for time? 20 brilliant books you can read in a day

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By Chris Power
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
default A one-sitting read is typically the domain of the short story – a form that largely depends on a reader's pure, unbroken attention. But there is something special about the intensity of beginning and ending an entire book in a single day. Of all my reading experiences, these have been among the most memorable.
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Still in a Dream — a fun and messy account of music journalism in the ’80s and ’90s

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By Chris Power
| Financial Times Verified
Although Simon Reynolds has written several books in the intervening years, the subtitle of Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the...
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M John Harrison: ‘If we met a real alien we’d have no clue what they thought’

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By Chris Power
| AOL UK Verified
Three years ago, in a greasy spoon on the fringes of the City of London, M John Harrison – Mike to his friends – told me about the novel he was working on. Rather than describing its plot or characters, he spoke purely about the challenge the book presented to him as a writer. With this one, he said, he wanted to push things as far as they could go. Now that book, The End of Everything – his 13th novel – is about to be published.
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