Powers’s new book is “Bewilderment.” You could think of it as 'The Innerstory': It is about how and whether we see the world we inhabit. When I interviewed Barack Obama this year, he recommended “The Overstory,” saying, “It changed how I thought about the earth and our place in it.” I haven’t walked through a forest the same way again. Richard Powers is the author of 13 novels, including the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Overstory.” If you haven’t read it, you should. There’s just more to them than I’m going to be able to convey. There are certain conversations I fear trying to fit into a description. Today we're revisiting one of our favorite conversations from 2021 with the novelist Richard Powers. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022.
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