Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake
The Penguin Podcast
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Is Addiction a Writing Process?
Richard Ford: "I'm not sure there should be any shoulds in art at all" Each of his 13 books has been an excursion into a new way of looking at the world, he says. It was weeks between saying I don't think I can do this again and realizing that would it be wrong to say the word addicted? Richard Ford: "If addiction means that you feel edgy and withdrawal symptoms when it's not happening, that box is checked"
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