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Richard Powers
with Brad LeithauserWednesday November 14 2007
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Richard Powers has said, "fiction can travel anywhere, and probably should." He is the author of nine novels that explore connections among disparate disciplines such as photography, artificial intelligence, music composition, molecular biology, game theory, and American business. His recent novel, The Echo Maker, which won the 2006 National Book Award, is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation. His other novels include Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Galatea 2.2, Gain, Plowing the Dark, and The Time of Our Singing. He has been called one of the greatest American novelists of his generation.
Brad Leithauser's novel, Darlington's Fall, was called "an amazing merger of art and science, verse and narrative," by John Updike. He is also the author of a collection of poems, Lettered Creatures, and of essays, Penchants and Places. Leithauser, a former MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow, teaches at Mount Holyoke College.
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