Bewilderman is a new book about the relationship between science and art. The author says he wanted to be a scientist, but fell for the seductions of art instead. Bewilderman's title comes from an essay by physician biologist Lewis Thomas. "I don't see a huge difference between what scientists are doing and what artists are doing," she said.
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.
‘Bewilderment’ is available to order on audiobook now: https://apple.co/3cFCDYf
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