Bio: Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including “The Overstory,” “Bewilderment,” and “Orfeo.” He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize ...

“Coming to Santa Barbara from the Smokies is like coming to another planet,” mused Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental novelist Richard ... truly is,” Powers emphasized. In 2019, Powers won the ...

The first line is the deepest. From flourishes of excitement just like Charles Dickens ‘It was the best of times…’, which ...

I use these skills every day. The last good book I read was … “The Overstory,” by Richard Powers. I’m up and at ’em every day by ... 7ish. One of the joys of empty nesting. My exercise r ...

It is in the top five of my favorite novels ever. And I just started on Playground (2024) by another Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Powers who won it for 2018’s The Overstory: A Novel. There’s ...

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