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.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers joins Nihal Arthanayake to discuss his thirteenth novel, ‘Bewilderment’.
Using objects like Bach’s Goldberg Variation 18, an unsmoked hickory nut, and a petrified piece of redwood, Powers transport us to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains, musing on the importance of sense as an entranceway to curiosity, writing as a resistance of habituation, and the centrifugal feeling that connects the work of the artist and the scientist; that of bewilderment.
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