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"The Best Place for It." The New
Yorker 63 (February 1, 1988): 28-35. Excerpt from Prisoner's
Dilemma.
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"State and Vine: Vineland." Yale
Review 79.4 (Summer, 1990): 690-698. Review of Pynchon's
Vineland.
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"Hard Ones." Harper's Magazine
283 (August, 1991): 37. Excerpt from Gold Bug Variations.
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"We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder."
Grand Street 10.1 (Winter, 1991): 182. Excerpt from Gold Bug
Variations.
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"Een
Amerikaan in Holland." De Groene Amsterdammer (March 11,
1992):24-25. Essay by Powers on the creative uses of cultural
misunderstanding. Reprinted in Joustra, Arendo (editor),
Vreemde Ogen. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 1993.
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"A Game We Couldn't Lose." New
York Times. (February 18 1996): IV, 13:1. Op-Ed article on Gary
Kasparov's chess match against IBM's Deep Blue computer. (865 words)
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with Bruno Latour. "Two Writers Facing
One Turing Test: A Dialog in Honor of HAL Between Richard Powers and
Bruno Latour." Common Knowledge, 7.1: 177-191. Text
prepared for the Cyberfest, March, 14, 1997, Urbana-Champaign.
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"Losing Our Souls, Bit by Bit."
New York Times. (July 15 1998): A, 19:2. Op-Ed article on the
encroachment of online technologies into our personal lives. (1060
words)
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"Life By Design: Too Many
Breakthroughs." New York Times. (November 19 1998): A,
32:5. Op-Ed piece on biotechnology. (780 words)
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"Eyes Wide Open.8 New York Times
Magazine (April 18, 1999): 80- 83. An assessment of the greatest
ideas and accomplishments of the millennium.
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"Escapes." Esquire 131.7
(July, 1999): 86. Excerpt from Plowing the Dark.
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[excerpt from Plowing the Dark]
Conjunctions. 33 (Fall 1999).
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"Being and Seeming: the Technology of
Representation." Context. 3 (2000).
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"All That Is Solid Melts Into Air"
[excerpt from Plowing the Dark]. Harper's
300:1800 (May 2000): 20, 22-23.
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"American Dreaming: The Limitless
Absurdity of Our Belief In an Infinitely Transformable Future."
New York Times Magazine. (May 7 2000): 67. Powers comments on a
survey indicating Americans think they can be whoever they want to be.
(1671 words)
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"Sein und Schein: Zur Technologie der
Darstellung." Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur. 56
(Mai 2001). Translation of "Being and Seeming: the Technology of
Representation" (see above).
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"The Simile." New York Times
Magazine 151:51885 (September 23, 2001): 21-22. Powers is one of
several authors sharing personal reflections on the events of September
11, 2001. He reflects on the inadequacy of similes to covey the effect
of the attacks.
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"Ba-Da Bang." New York Times
Magazine. 151:51983 (December 30, 2001): 49. Powers remembers
British astrophysicist and science fiction author Sir Fred Hoyle.
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"Singing." (excerpt from The Time
of Our Singing) Conjunctions. 37 (Fall 2001): 12-18.
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"Und was kommt dann? Je mehr die Medizin
vermag, umso mehr gleicht sie der Erzählkunst: Beide sollen zeigen, was
die Zukunft bringt." Suddeutscher Zeitung. (August 10,
2002). A meditation on the parallels between storytelling and medicine,
and on their ability to show the future. Translated into German by
Joachim Kalka.
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"From The
Time of Our Singing." Tin House 4.1 (Fall, 2002): 42-52.
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Entry in
Harmon, James, L, (editor), Take My Advice: Letters to the Next
Generation, Simon and Schuster (2002): 77-8.
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"Literary
Devices." Zoetrope 6.4 (Winter, 2002): 8-15. A piece on
"self-telling" fiction in the digital age. Reprinted in
Lightman, Alan, et. al. (editor) Living With The Genie, Island Press
(2003): 5-21. Reprinted in Henderson, Bill, (editor), 2004
Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses (2003): 326-341.
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"From the
Files--John Barth: An Introduction." The Paris Review. 45, no.
167, (2003): 292 (3 pages)
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Im Labor
der Nomaden: Neue us-amerikanische Literatur. Vorwort
[preface] by Richard Powers. Germany: Wehr, Norbert, 2003. ISBN:
3924071160. Includes work by Ben Marcus, David Markson, and Curtis
White. Edited by Guido Graf; translations by Marcus Ingendaay, Eike
Schoenfeld, and Nikolaus Stingl.
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"From Plowing the Dark" in Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels, edited by Shanna Compton. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004. Excerpt from Plowing the Dark.
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"Improvisations." PEN America, Volume 3, Issue 5 (2004): 15 (2
pages). Excerpt from Galatea 2.2.
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"Introduction." Hughes, Brigid (editor), Paris Review Book of Planes,
Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms, Picador (2004): (ISBN:
0312433407). Reprinted in edited extract as "Real Time Bandits," in
The Guardian (UK) Review (August 14, 2004), p. 3
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"Kincatenate."
Foer, Jonathan Safran, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers (editors), The
Future Dictionary of America. McSweeny's (2004): (ISBN:
1-932416-20-X).
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"They Come in a Steady Stream Now." A piece written by Powers for
BBC radio, turned into an interactive digital work by Jessica Mullen for
the web counterpart of the magazine Ninth Letter.
(December, 2004)
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"I
remember the thing homing in..." Short appreciation of Thomas
Pynchon in a special edition of Bookforum Volume 12, Issue 2
(June-September, 2005) p. 40.
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"Cranes."
Excerpt from novel in progress, in
Black Clock number 3
(Spring, 2005). p 1.
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"The Seventh
Event." Article in Granta 90:
Country Life (Summer, 2005) p. 57.
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"My Music." in
Gramophone
(October 2005), p. 170.
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"In den Docks."
Neue Rundschau (No. 2, 2005), p. 83-86.
Translated into German by Manfred
Allié. Reprinted in Mein Klassiker:
Autoren Erzählen vom Lesen, Fischer Verlag (Frankfurt am Main: 2008)
p. 115-119.
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"Wat er niet meer
is." De Standaard der Letteren (November 25, 2005), p. 8-9.
Cover story on memory, phantom pain, and a belated return to Belgium.
Translated into Dutch by Geert Lernout.
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"Meer der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten." Profil
48:36
(November 28, 2005), p. 143-145. On Mozart's discovery of Bach
Translated into German by Manfred
Allié and Gabrielle Kempf-Allié
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An artificial being."
in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds) Making things public:
Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press, pp.
614-619.
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"A Head for Music." The New York Times. (Jan. 8, 2006): 4:14. Op-ed article on the efforts of researchers to gain insight into Mozart's genius via scientific analysis of his putative skull. 898 words.
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"A Brief Take on Genetic Screening." The Believer. (March, 2006). p.
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"De taal van het leven: een ruwe schets." Dietsche Warande & Belfort 06: 2 (April, 2006), p. 212-223. An essay on writing science-based fiction.
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"The Global Distributed Self-Mirroring Subterranean Neurological Soul-Sharing
Picture Show." Japanese Book News 48 (Summer 2006) p. 2-14. An essay on the fiction of Haruki Murakami.
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Bradshaw, Sara, et al. Nine Novels by Younger Americans. Foreword by Richard Powers. San Francisco: 826 Books, 2007. Includes work by Sara Bradshaw, Rachel Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sarah Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, and Samantha Lipman. Publisher's description: 'This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony."
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"How to speak a book." New York Times Book Review (January 7, 2007).
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Bachmann, Vera, ed.
Das Lesen--ein Traum: Strahlende Geschichten fur Dunkle Nachte. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2007. (ISBN 3596510198) Includes stories by Powers, Audrey Niffenegger, Haruki Murakami, Roger Willemsen, Marisha Pessl, Steffi von Wolff among others.
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"Making the Rounds." in Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers. Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. For more information, see entry under Theses, Special Studies, and Books about Powers
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"The Book of Me." GQ. (November 2008): 220-225, 266, 271-272, 274-276. An article on Powers's experience of having his genome sequenced. From the table of contents: "Last summer, Richard Powers became one of nine people on earth to have his entire genome sequenced. Are we ready for an era in which genes are as easy to measure as height and weight?" Available online at http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_7481. Note for collectors: this magazine was issued with two different covers.
