When did you become aware, and I know you will perhaps balk at the immodesty in this question, that you were brilliant at it? Not that you're good at it, but you are brilliant. Are there any constitutional rights in this country to not have to answer self-incriminating questions? "I don't think of myself as having any special capacities"
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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