Listen "First Draft - Richard Powers (Returns)"
Episode Synopsis
Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including Bewilderment, The Overstory, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. His new novel is called Playground.
We talked about the ocean, plot and games, the structure of Playground, beguiling endings, water, play, the game Go, science and spirituality, immortality and talking to the dead.
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We talked about the ocean, plot and games, the structure of Playground, beguiling endings, water, play, the game Go, science and spirituality, immortality and talking to the dead.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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