Web Resources: (note: some of the links are no longer functional. Please use the Wayback Machine to locate pages with non-current links.)
- Wikipedia article
- Tabbi, Joseph.
A Review of Books in the Age
of Their Technological Obsolescence. World Wide Web. 1995.
Electronic Book Review, Winter 95-96, number 1. On book reviewing,
electronic media, Bruce Sterling, and Galatea 2.2.
- Fitz, Peter.
A Gold Bug
Companion. [World Wide Web--archived version on Internet Archive]. 1996. Includes: "The Gold
Bug Companion originated as a project of Language as Technology at the
University of Baltimore in the Spring of 1996."
- LeClair, Tom."The Prodigious Fiction of
Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace."
Critique 38 (Fall, 1996): 12-37.
- Miller, Laura.
"The
Salon Interview: Richard Powers" Salon (July 1998).
- Alperowitz, Michael.
"Orpheus im Elekronenhirn: Ein Multimedia-Projekt im
Latein-Leistungskurs." Published on the web site of the
Landesinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht (July 10 1998) No longer available. Former URL: http://www.leu.bw.schule.de/allg/mainpublikationen/sonst/orpheus.pdf
- Powers, Richard.
Faculty web page. Former faculty web page on Internet Archive at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/powers/.
- Williams, Jeffrey.
"The Last
Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers." Cultural Logic.
2.2 (Spring 1999). Excellent interview, dated November 1998, with
good biographical detail on Powers, from his years in Bangkok as a
teeneager through the writing of Plowing the Dark.
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"Richard Powers
Eats Peanut Butter Sandwich." An amusing account,
metafictional, of Powers talking about hypertext while eating a peanut
butter sandwich.
- Birkerts, Sven.
"The Esquire Conversation: Richard Powers and Sven Birkerts."
Esquiremag.com. (July 2000) Discussion of the ideas behind
Plowing the Dark. Link is to Internet Archive version of the web page.
- Blume, Harvey.
"Two Geeks On Their Way To Byzantium: A Conversation With Richard
Powers." Atlantic Unbound. (July 28 2000). Explores the
use of the computer as motif in Powers' work.
- Watts, Ann Levgold.
"Richard Powers." November 2, 2000. Web page for her course on
Internet Research Techniques at Des Moines Community College. Includes
some annotations of particular aspects of GBV. Link is to Internet Archive version of the web page.
- Lannan Foundation
Audio Archives.
Recorded transcript of a Powers reading at the Lannan Foundation, Sana
Fe, December 6, 2000. Also includes a question and answer session
with Powers and David Foster Wallace, hosted by John O'Brien.
- Leonard, John.
"Mind Painting." The New York Review of Books. 48.1
(January 11 2001): 42-48. Ostensibly a review of Plowing the Dark, this
is a full-blown evaluative appreciation of Powers's work to date. Sample
quote: "Everybody else just talks about alienation, estrangement, and
the unbearable lightness of being. [Powers] actually does something
about them. ... He will use everything we know from our higher brain
functions about mind and body and art and longing, to find patterns and
to close distances."
- Video presentations by Ninth Letter:
- Austin, Travis and Becky Nasadowski, Editing and Composing. "Richard Powers." [video presentation]. Web publication by Ninth Letter, in their podcast series, "Where We're At." Number 10. Voiceover by Richard Powers, reading from Time of Our Singing. Credits: Art direction: Daniel Goscha; Sound design: Travis Austin. Note from Ninth Letter website: "To celebrate both Powers' literary accomplishments and his contributions to the University of Illinois, the Provost's Office commissioned production of five short video works, each of which interprets a passage from one of Richard Powers' novels--The Goldbug Variations, Galatea 2.2, Plowing the Dark, The Time of our Singing, and The Echo Maker. The videos are a collaborative endeavor between Powers and a group of artists and designers from the School of Art + Design. All five videos appeared beginning November 2007. Over the next several months ninthletter.com will publish all five video works. This interpretation based on The Time of Our Singing is the first installment."
The video may also be found on Becky Nasadowki's website, with this note: "Richard Powers, a MacArthur Foundation 'genius award' recipient, distributed five passages from five of his books to different artists to create a short video for each. Shown here is the result of our group's effort for the chosen passage. This piece was a collaborative endeavor with Travis Austin under the Art Direction of Daniel Goscha for Powers' novel, 'The Time of Our Singing'. {3:00 | produced with Adobe After Effects}"
- Holding, Cory, and Angela Waarala, Editors. "Richard Powers--Plowing the Dark." [video presentation]. Web publication by Ninth Letter, in their podcast series, "Where We're At." Number 16. Voiceover by Richard Powers, reading from Plowing the Dark.
- Weaver, Deke, Editor. "Richard Powers--The Echo Maker." [video presentation]. Web publication by Ninth Letter, in their podcast series, "Where We're At." Number 18. Voiceover by Richard Powers, reading from The Echo Maker.
- Holding, Cory, and Angela Waarala, Editors. "Richard Powers--The Gold Bug Variations." [video presentation]. Web publication by Ninth Letter, in their podcast series, "Where We're At." Number 21. Voiceover by Richard Powers, reading from The Gold Bug Variations. Credits: Aaron Dugger, actor; Stephen Jones, musical score.
- Bradford, Colin, video. "Richard Powers--Galatea 2.2." [video presentation]. Web publication by Ninth Letter, in their podcast series, "Where We're At." Number 24. Voiceover by Richard Powers, reading from Galatea 2.2.
- Silverblatt, Michael.
Bookworm Interview. An audio transcript of Powers's March 15, 2001 appearance on the nationally syndicated radio book review program produced by KCRW (Los Angeles). Link is to Internet Archive version of the web page. Audio file appears to be unavailable. (10/09/2008)
- Cundiff, Greg. "The Gold Bug Variations." Still trying to figure out exactly what this is. Seems to be an effort to use hypertext to comment on and elucidate The Gold Bug Variations. Includes three essays so far (May 2001), including
- National Public Radio, Talk of the
Nation:
"Humans and Their Machines." Audio and print transcript of
Powers's appearance on NPR radio alongside Rodney Brooks and Anne Foerst. Link is to Internet Archive version of the page. The sound file remains available on the NPR website as of 10/09/2008 at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/totn/20020426.totn.02.ram
- Champion, Edward (editor). "Echo
Maker Roundtable." Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: A
Blog In Tenebrous Standing. (October 2006). A five-part roundtable
discussion of The Echo Maker, with participants Judith Zissman, Jessica
Stockton, Sarah Weinman, Levi Asher, Jenny Davidson, Dan Wickett, Megan
Sullivan, Edward Champion, and Richard Powers.
- "Richard Powers": A short video published on YouTube by Ninth Letter, featuring abstract images accompanying Powers's reading from Time of Our Singing. Posted on YouTube November 1, 2007.
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