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While We’re on the Subject of Infobahn Novelists

Let’s not forget that Richard Powers has a new novel, The Echo Maker, coming out in October. While half the size of Pynchon’s near 1,000 page opus, my guess is that it should appease Pynchonites just...

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“The Echo Maker” Roundtable in October

For those who enjoyed the roundtable discussions involving David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green and T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk, I’m pleased to report that, at the beginning of October, we’ll be plunging...

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He Has the Powers

Over at Bookforum, James Gibbons examines Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker and compares it against his previous works. Gibbons even manages to corral a few quotes from the man himself. (Thanks, Dan and...

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The Time of Our Questioning

Powell’s Jill Owens talks with Richard Powers.

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The Echo Maker

I overlooked this Richard Powers interview with the Sun-Times‘ Stephen J. Lyons, but it’s worth your time. Interestingly, like The Time of Our Singing, The Echo Maker was composed entirely through...

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Throw William Deresiewicz Into the Echo Chamber

I hate to jump the gun on the forthcoming Echo Maker discussion, but I have to agree with Richard at the Existence Machine concerning this William Deresiewicz review of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker....

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You Can’t Go Home Again

“He’d forgotten about midwesterners. He could no longer read them, his people, the residents of the Great Central Flyover. Or rather, his theories about them, honed through his first twenty years of...

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Cryptographic Protocols, Complex Quantum Mechanics: Just to “Fool Around”

While looking for something else, I discovered this episode of Radio Zero. About sixteen minutes in, there’s a story involving Richard Powers, a VR lab similar to the one depicted in Plowing the Dark...

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Echo Maker Roundtable Next Week

For those curious about Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker, this is a reminder that next week, starting on Monday, a grand gang of literary enthusiasts will be discussing the book here at this site. Aside...

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Author Photographers: Richard Powers vs. Marion Ettlilnger

Okay, so I like both of Tayari’s author photos. But if I had to pick between the two, I’d go for the one shot by Richard Powers, which, despite the quarter profile framing, had a slight August Sander...

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Echo Maker Roundtable #1

(This is the first in a five-part roundtable discussion of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. Be sure to check out Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.) [This week marks the release of Richard...

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Echo Maker Roundtable #2

(This is the second in a five-part roundtable discussion of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.) Levi Asher writes: I’m really glad this...

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Echo Maker Roundtable #3

(This is the third in a five-part roundtable discussion of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Two, Part Four, and Part Five.) Dan Wickett writes: Like Levi, and it...

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Echo Maker Roundtable #4

(This is the fourth in a five-part roundtable discussion of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Two, and Part Three, and Part Five.) [NOTE TO READER: Because this...

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Echo Maker Roundtable #5

(This is the fifth in a five-part roundtable discussion of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.) Richard Powers writes: Holy Hippocampus...

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Echo Hides the Hurt

Colson Whitehead on Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker.

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Oliver Sacks Victimized by Richard Powers?

As bad as William Deresiewicz’s Echo Maker review was, it doesn’t hold a candle to the silly leaps in logic laid down by Craig Seligman, who accuses Richard Powers of victimizing Oliver Sacks: Modeling...

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Esposito on Powers

Scott has an excellent Friday column on Richard Powers: But if in Powers we lose a sense of mystery, we gain a sense of wonder. One of the most striking aspects of a Powers novel is the sense of...

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Another Richard Powers Interview

While the New York papers don’t seem to be having a lot of luck these days talking with Richard Powers before the National Book Awards, yet another Chicago media outlet nabs an interview with Powers:...

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Powers in New York

Sarah talks with Richard Powers.

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What Is It About Novelists Who Write Thick Books and Cornfields?

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Richard Powers

First Vollmann, now Powers. It seems the folks at the National Book Foundation and I are in sync these days. At last report, shortly after the ceremony closed up, the poor man was mobbed. For those who...

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Atwood Nails It

New York Review of Books: “So if [Richard Powers is] so good, why isn’t he better known? Let me put it another way —why haven’t his books won more medals? It’s as if juries have recognized the...

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NBA Audio

The BookExpoCast page has podcasts of the National Book Awards ceremony, including Richard Powers’ speech (beginning at around 31:42). (via The Written Nerd)

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Richard Powers on Fresh Air

I haven’t listened to it yet, but this should be interesting. (Thanks, Matthew!) Those who are having trouble with the feed (as I am) might want to try this link. [UPDATE: Listening to it now. Terry...

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Finally, Tanenhaus Does Something Right

Richard Powers is in this week’s NYTBR.

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New Richard Powers Interview

In this month’s Believer (incidentally, the first issue to carry an advertisement, of which the editors write, “This is the first time we’re taking ads, and it will allow the magazine to continue to...

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“The Moving Finger”

I intended to get to this the other day, but there are reports of Richard Powers’ presentation of “The Moving Finger” (with John Leonard!) by Sarah and East Coast Ed.

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New Richard Powers Novel Has Title and Release Date

FSG has recently announced a spate of titles for fall 2009. Among the bunch is Richard Power’s new novel, Generosity: An Enhancement, which is set for release in October. As soon as I determine any...

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Wooden Disposition

It is difficult to respond to James Wood’s remarkable misreading of Richard Powers’s Generosity without giving away the ending. As someone who respects a reader’s sense of discovery and who therefore...

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