Poured Over: Richard Powers on Bewilderment

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Bewilderment: A Novel

Richard Powers

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Richard Powers is the author of 13 novels, including The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His new novel, Bewilderment, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, is an intimate story of two lost boys — father and son — and it’s a bit of a departure from his earlier books. Richard joins us on the show for a charming conversation about where the title came from, why he used a first-person narrative for this book, the connection between writing fiction and computer code, writing about grief, and more. Produced/hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang.
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