James Crawford

🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨 Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP from @scribepub & @BloomsburyPub

Danish poet Inger Christensen's book-length poem #alphabet was discussed on @BBCRadio4's Take Four Books with writer Solvej Balle. A clip of Susanna Nied reading from her translation (taken from @AilbheDarcy's 2020 Radio 4 feature Alphabet) was played. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

It may not be the 18th of November but it is 'Selter Day' on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks as I talk to SOLVEJ BALLE about her @FaberBooks serial novel ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME & her 3 influences (inc brill poem Alphabet!) - come join us in the time loop! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Listen now to my chat with Yann Martel on @BBCRadio4 about new novel SON OF NOBODY & his 3 influences: Homer's Iliad (as translated by Stephen Mitchell), Alice Oswald's poem Memorial & Edward Albee's classic 1960s play. From the Trojan War to marital war! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with John Lanchester about new @FaberBooks novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut! 🎧📚👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 25% off (My new book THE VANISHING EARTH coming out September ‘26!) waterstones.com/book/the-vanis…

🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨 Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP from @scribepub & @BloomsburyPub

Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Today, 4pm on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I'm talking to @RobDoyle1 about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Today on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @FitzcarraldoEds novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People' 📻📚🎧👇bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Proud to have produced this. James Crawford interviews Sir Salman Rushdie about his latest collection of short fiction — I’m biased obviously but found this an inspiring and important listen. 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks 🎧📚👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with @McCallSmith about new novel THE PRIVATE SIDE OF FRIENDSHIP and 3 influences, including W.H. Auden on unrequited love, Robin Dunbar’s “Friends”, and Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” #TakeFourBooks bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

How all literary events should end! 🍻 With @Jdcrawf, Natalie Jayne Clarke, @BeeRowlatt, @isobeldixon, Chris Barkley & Eimear McBride

@GMacraeBurnet @BeeRowlatt @isobeldixon Take Seven Authors!

Alexander is to guest on @BBCRadio4's Take Four Books this weekend, talking about his latest (and already much loved) stand-alone novel The Private Side of Friendship. Keep an eye on the BBC website to watch live or on catch-up: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Today on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I was talking to Karl Ove Knausgaard about new novel THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT and 3 ‘Faustian’ influences incl Thomas Mann & “Bunnyman”, the memoir of @Will_Fuzz from @Bunnymen! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

If you are in London - come along next Thursday and embrace the Dark(land)ness!