Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he's tackling a knotty passage. Hilary Mantel, whose Tudor drama "Wolf Hall"...
Alexandra Alter has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about the unusual tactics that seventeen writers have for crafting their fiction. Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hillary Mantel, Richard Powers, and Orhan Pamuk are among those who divulge their secrets. Here's part of Colum McCann's story: When he's in the middle of a novel, Colum McCann sometimes prints out...
The Danes have it. Whether it’s furniture, textiles, architecture, or photography, they can do no wrong. Danish photographer Kim Høltermand is a perfect example of that. Check out his AMAZING architecture portfolio and tell me if you disagree. More of his work can also be found here. Gobs of eye candy after the jump! [...] Related posts: Architectural Photography :: Johannes Heuckeroth...
Book lovers, get ready to celebrate because the 26th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International (Fair), is just around the corner. Presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC), the Fair will take place Nov. 8 – 15 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., in downtown Miami. The Fair...
In the latest N+1, Marco Roth takes a critical look at the rise of the "neuronovel": The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel--the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind--has transformed itself into the neurological...
Two former supermarket employees compare memoirs . • The music of Richard Powers coming to a decision . • Author picture fantasies . • Stephen Poole offers a sceptical guide to contemporary usage of the word "sceptic" , beginning with a disdainfully careful use of the word "versifier". • Reading and the Ramones effect , in the face of a novel composed entirely...
n+1 has an excellent article on how neuroscience is making an increasing appearance in novels, not only as a subject, but also as a literary device to explore characters and explain their motivations. It marks the start of the trend from Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and notes that in more recent years books such as Richard Powers’s The Echomaker , Mark Haddon’s Curious Incident of...
Do you ever dream of driving an old Airstream trailer across the country? I do constantly, especially around this time of year when the weather is crisp and the states are filled with the colors of fall. Perhaps someday... Sources (from top to bottom): Abby Powell Thompson , Atlanta Bartlett , Hilary Hitchcock , John Kernick , Anna Wolf , {frolic!} , Richard Powers , David Tsay , Jo Barnes , and Fututowoman...
When it comes to the mad scientists of American letters, no one sees more clearly through his safety goggles than Richard Powers. In his new novel, Generosity: An Enhancement, the National Book Award winner (“The Echo Maker”) and recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant takes something quintessentially American – the ...
An oil painter is the $250,000 winner of ArtPrize. A cappella gets its due: the Yale Whiffenpoofs celebrate their centennial and Sonos, the harmonizing indie group, performs live in the studio. And in the only radio interview he's doing for his new book, "Generosity: An Enhancement," the novelist Richard Powers finds his muse in genetic engineering.
I hardcore fell asleep last night. I tried to watch Snatch on HBO, but I kept passing out and waking up and passing out, so I made myself move to the bed. It was weird. I almost never accidentally sleep well. Usually I have to complete some kind of ritual: yoga, pills, whathaveyou. Nope, I didn't go to the gym yesterday. I drank four beers instead. And ate a shitload of Mexican. But! My binge-eating/drinking...
Richard Powers is that rare fiction writer more concerned with the mysteries of science than with the mysteries of character. His novels, including The Gold Bug Variations (1991) and The Echo (...)
At one point, Richard Powers was one of the top two or three cover artists for SF books . During the '60s and '70s, and even into the '80s, a significant percentage of all SF book covers were done by Richard Powers, considered to be the ...
Around Frankfurt Book Fair time many of the German-language publications offer special book supplements and additional literary coverage; as usual one of the most impressive is the one at the Austrian newsprint weekly, the Falter . Over a hundred (!) titles under review, including several not-yet-translated into German as well as everything from the new Herta Müller to the new German Book Prize...
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