Richard Powers

Richard Powers

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Dr. Robert Waldinger breaks down key insights on happiness gathered from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The top stress regulator—and how to cultivate it in your life  2) Two big happiness myths to debunk  3) How to foster warm, authentic relationships with one question  Subscribe or visit

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Nihal Arthanayake & Richard Powers 24 Nov 2021 • EN

Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers joins Nihal Arthanayake to discuss his thirteenth novel, ‘Bewilderment’. Using objects like Bach’s 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

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Georgina Godwin & Richard Powers 07 Nov 2021 • EN

Richard Powers

Georgina Godwin meets Richard Powers, an acclaimed writer with an array of awards under his belt – including a Pulitzer prize for fiction. While at university, he switched from majoring in physics to English literature but science has remained a central part of his writing. His new novel ‘Bewilderment’ was shortlisted

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Richard Powers 02 Nov 2021 • EN

Richard Powers - Why Stories Matter

Few works of literature have the power to change who we are and how we conceive our place in the universe – but Richard Powers Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning masterpiece The Overstory is one. For Barack Obama, Powers ‘changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’; for Emma Thompson, The Ove

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"Everyday could be a day of unthinkable richness if we just keep still, attend and be present to what the place that we live in wants to do." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers talks about the power of wilderness to centre his characters in Bewilderment, his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel. Also, two time winn

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Sam Fragoso & Richard Powers 17 Oct 2021 • EN

How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers)

This week we have a soulful (and long overdue) conversation around climate change and the restorative power of nature with Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Powers. We begin by defining the thematic through-line between The Overstory and Bewilderment (5:06), the eco trauma articulated in each text (9:10), how we ma

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