Max PorterMax Porter

Max Porter lives in London and works at Granta Books. He was the editor of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, and his own novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is one of the most admired books of the past several years. Max was born in 1981 in High Wycombe.

Rot and decay: an extract from the new novel by Max Porter

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After editing The Luminaries, UK writer Max Porter released his own astronomically good book, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. His new novel Lanny is short and strange; every page squishes with imagery, a rich compost of words. It begins: Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs … Read more

Books: The Year of Max Porter

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Max Porter’s 2015: a new baby, political angst, ‘tips on not being an asshole’, his novel Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, ninjas, Paris, ‘the smell of books’. I’m so tired right now that I hardly know my arse from my elbow, but here are some things I remember happening this year, in no particular order, … Read more

Books: The Guiding Unseen Hand of Granta Books editor Max Porter Helped Shape Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries. He’s also a Brilliant Novelist Himself

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London writer Max Porter – best known in New Zealand as the editor of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries – has published his first novel. He writes exclusively for The Spinoff Review of Books. Grief is the Thing with Feathers is the story of a man whose wife dies. He is left to care for their … Read more