Richard Powers

Book Nook: "The Iconic House"

By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The Iconic House," by Dominic Bradbury. Photography by Ricard Powers. "The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900" By Domenic Bradbury with photographs by Richard Powers...

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GENEROSITY

ATLANTIC BOOKS: NOT AVAILABLE. paperback (C format), Date Publication: 01/01/2010 Idioma: Inglés Autor: Richard Powers "Generosity" is Power's most exuberantly brilliant book yet, in which he dares to imagine what might happen...

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Our Man in Boston: Get Shorties [Current Reads]

While preparing my chat with American short fiction samurai Tobias Wolff for publication, I realized that though I greatly appreciate short stories I have not been paying sufficient attention to them in this space. Luckily, I...

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In an intimate setting, novelist Richard Powers finds new fans

If, as a character in Richard Powers' provocative new novel suggests, happiness is a virus, then can we say the crowd was infected at Wednesday's ``Evenings With . . .'' event at Miami Book Fair International?

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Our Man in Boston: Relentless Yawp [Little Magazines]

Though I grew up in Chicago reading the Sun-Times and the Daily News from a precociously early age (and thus claim a historical interest), I haven’t decided yet whether the fulminating about the rapidly thinning forest of daily...

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Despite ban, Holder to speak to CAIR-linked group

Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech later this month to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed...

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Thousands Attend Miami International Book Fair

The Miami Book Fair International kicked off over the weekend with a very special poet. Elizabeth Alexander's poetry is so highly regarded that her work was read at President Barack Obama's inauguration. The book fair runs...

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Literary events calendar

Rob Neufeld • November 8, 2009 Your guide to author and literary events in Western North Carolina, Nov. 8-14: Today SHORT STORY MASTERS: Award-winning authors Mary Akers and Clifford Garstang present their collection of short...

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Do-overs: Internet's treasure

By Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Internet's a wonderful thing. In my account of the event, I described him as "a florid fellow from the University of Pennsylvania wearing what looked like saddle shoes." The story was...

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Notes on writing (or) The Nicholson Baker Tapes

I wrote up a few things I learned about writing over at Kickstarter. I will also use this as an excuse to link to this great WSJ round-up of writers’ habits. Nicholson Baker’s routine is almost mystical: Most days, Nicholson...

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