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Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake

The Penguin Podcast

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Penguin Podcast invites authors to lay bare their inspirations and their desires. We ask them to analyze their specialisms and reveal their weaknesses as we probe a little deeper into what drives them. Richard Powers is joined by Nihala Finayka, who asks him why he wrote his latest novel so soon after threatening it would be his last. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's work covers densely intellectual topics such as DNA, virtual reality and medicine.

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