Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake

Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 4 a.m.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers joins Nihal Arthanayake to discuss his thirteenth novel, \u2018Bewilderment\u2019.


Using objects like Bach\u2019s 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. 


\u2018Bewilderment\u2019 is available to order on audiobook now: https://apple.co/3cFCDYf




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