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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleHe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThrow 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....
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleCryptographic 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...
View ArticleEcho 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...
View ArticleAuthor 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...
View ArticleOliver 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...
View ArticleEsposito 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...
View ArticleAnother 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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