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A Radical Reimagining of the Novel with Richard Powers and Forrest Gander
Emergence Magazine Podcast - November 25, 2019 18:08 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 414 ratingsIn this vibrant conversation, poet and author Forrest Gander interviews Richard Powers about his acclaimed new novel The Overstory. Recorded during a live event co-presented by Emergence Magazine and Point Reyes Books, the two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors reflect on continuity, kinship, and pro...
Richard Powers on 'The Overstory'
RadioWest - November 08, 2019 01:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsIf trees could speak, what might they say? In Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Overstory , a tree tells a woman, “Your kind never sees us whole.” Powers joins us to talk about his book and how to see trees as more than “amputations.”
Richard Powers On 'The Overstory'
RadioWest - November 08, 2019 01:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratingsIf trees could speak, what might they say? In Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Overstory , a tree tells a woman, “Your kind never sees us whole.” Powers joins us to talk about his book and how to see trees as more than “amputations.”
Richard Powers
Private Passions - October 21, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAs part of Radio 3’s celebration of forests this autumn, Michael Berkeley’s guest is the American novelist Richard Powers. His latest novel, The Overstory, is his twelfth, and it’s a monumental work which was entirely inspired by trees. It all started when Powers was teaching in California, an...
Richard Powers | The Overstory with William T. Vollmann | No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 09:14 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratingsA ''genuine artist ... who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications'' (Esquire), Richard Powers explores a remarkable range of subject matters in his novels. Among them are The Echo Maker, a story of the precarious brain, mass migrations,...
Richard Powers
Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series - May 17, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hearing and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one ...
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