- Birkerts, Sven. "American Fictions:
Mapping the New Reality." Wilson Quarterly 16.2 (Spring,
1992): 102-110. Birkerts considers a number of American novelists,
Powers among them. He writes briefly about GBV on p. 110.
- Blades, John. "Collective Madness."
Chicago Tribune (February 19, 1993): Section 2, p. 1-2. Powers
listed among book editions most prized by collectors.
- Shuman, R. Baird. "Richard Powers."
Entry in Magill's Survey of American Literature, (Supplement,
1994): 2680
- Lernout, Geert. "Richard Powers."
Entry in Post-war literatures in English: a lexicon of
contemporary authors. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1995. 17 p.
- Bukiet, Melvin. "Crackpot Realism."
Tikkun 10 (January, 1995-February 28, 1995): 51. Provides
the author's views on literary authors exploring the rapid social and
philosophical changes in the last half- century. Work termed as
'Crackpot Realism'; Exemplified by Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen
and Thomas Pynchon; Examination of several literary works.
- Marsh, Kelly A. "The Neo-Sensation
Novel: a Contemporary Genre in the Victorian Tradition."
Philological Quarterly 74.1 (Winter, 1995): 99-123. Includes
bibliographical references. Compares Powers and others to the writers
of "sensation novels," such as Dickens.
- "Powers, Richard (S.) 1957-." in
Contemporary Authors. Vol. 148. NY: Gale Research, 1996.
355-356.
- "Richard Powers." in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 93. NY: Gale Research,
1996. 274-302.
- Latour, Bruno. "Le Vrai Roman de la
Recherche." La Recherche 283 (January, 1996): 30-31.
- Howard, Gerald. "Slouching Towards
Grubnet: the Author in the Age of Publicity. (The Future of Fiction: A
Forum)." Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.1 (Spring,
1996): 44. Powers in examined in light of Martin Amis' book on the
publishing industry.
- Dodd, David. "Seeing the Cosmos: the
Novels of Richard Powers." Bloomsbury Review, March/April, 1996.
- Johnson, Steven. "Strange
Attraction." Lingua Franca (March/April 1996): 42-50. Powers
examined among "a band of literary scholars...experimenting with the
new science of chaos."
- Dewey, Joseph. "Dwelling in
Possibility: The Fiction of Richard Powers". The Hollins Critic.
(April 1996): 1-17.
- Lantos, John D. "Stories of Biology
and Medicine: the Novels of Richard Powers." Hastings Center
Report 26.3 (May, 1996-June 30, 1996): 17-20.
- LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious
Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster
Wallace." Critique 38 (Fall, 1996): 12-37. Also available
on the World Wide Web at : "http://ucunix.san.uc.edu/~sola/LeClair2".
- Sol, Adam.
Prodigious Prose.
World Wide Web. University of Cincinnati, 1997. Web site devoted to
the works of Powers, William Vollman, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster
Wallace, and others.
- Berger, Kevin. "Powers Among the
People: Eminent Novelist Richard Powers Gets Down to Business."
San Francisco Examiner Magazine (June 21, 1998): 10-13.
Photograph by Sylvai Plachy. Feature and Interview with Powers on the occasion of
two Bay Area readings.
- O'Brien, John, ed. The Review
of Contemporary Fiction : Richard Powers, Rikki Ducornet.
Normal, IL: 1998. 281 p. (Published as
Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 18, no. 3) (ISBN: 1564781925 (pbk.))
Includes the following pieces (each referenced invidividually in this
bibliography): "Dirtying our hands: an introduction to the fiction of
Richard Powers" by Jim Neilson; "An interview with Richard Powers" by
Jim Neilson; "Narrative Powers : Richard Powers as storyteller" by
James Hurt; "The storm of progress: Richard Powers's Three farmers" by
Greg Dawes; "Hooking the nose of the leviathan: information,
knowledge, and the mysteries of bonding in The gold bug variations" by
Joseph Dewey; "Ecologies of knowledge: the encyclopedic narratives of
Richard Powers and his contemporaries" by Trey Strecker; "'The wheel's
worst illusion": the spatial politics of Operation wandering soul" by
Ann Pancake; "The gender of genius: scientific experts and literary
amateurs in the fiction of Richard Powers" by Sharon Snyder; "'The
stereo view": politics and the role of the reader in Gain" by Charles
B. Harris; "A Richard Powers checklist."
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information.
- Hurt, James. "Narrative Powers:
Richard Powers as Storyteller." Review of Contemporary Fiction
(Fall 1998): 24-41.
- Neilson, Jim. "Dirtying Our Hands:
An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers." Review of
Contemporary Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 7.
- Snyder, Sharon. "The Gender of
Genius: Scientific Experts and Literacy Amateurs in the Fiction of
Richard Powers." Review of Contemporary Fiction 18.3
(Fall 1998): 84-
- Strecker, Trey. "Ecologies of
Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His
Contemporaries." Review of Contemporary Fiction 18.3
(Fall 1998): 67-71.
- Spayde, Jon. "The New Face of
Fiction." Utne Reader 90 (November-December 1998) 69-75.
- Birkerts, Svenn. "The Esquire 21:
Richard Powers." Esquire. 132.5 (November 1999): 135.
Very brief profile.
- Tabbi, Joseph.
"Fiction to the Second Powers."
Node9: An E-Journal of Writing and Technology. 4 (July
2000). Chapter from his book Cognitive Fictions: The Literary
Mind in Postmodern America, University of Minnesota Press, Fall
2001. Tabbi notes the following about this book: "In addition
to a chapter on Richard Powers, which appears here, Tabbi devotes
individual chapters to Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, David Markson,
Harry Mathews, Lynne Tillman and hypertext poet Stephanie Strickland."
- "Powers, Richard," in
Merriam-Webster Dictionary of American Writers. Springfield, MA:
Merriam-Webster (2001), p. 329. Encyclopedia entry of Powers and
his work.
- 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." Article includes the David
Levine caricature used in the NYRB's review of Gain in 98.
- Freund, Wieland. "Schluss Mit Lustig."
Die Welt (June 30, 2001): 4. Powers featured in a roundup of
"Die Neuen Amerikanischen Erzähler."
- Keller, Julia. "E=mc2=art."
Chicago Tribune (January 20, 2002): 1C. Powers discussed as
one of contemporary group of artists and writers drawing on scientific
themes.
- Bürger, Jan. "Der Roman-Programmierer."
Literaturen (March 3, 2002): 15-19. Longer feature over Powers
and his work in special issue feature, "Die Amerikaner Kommen."
- Krekeler, Elmar. "Wissen Ist Schwach."
Die Welt (July 9, 2002). Powers mentioned in an editorial:
"Star der neuen amerikanischen Literatur."
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "The
Exhaustion of Literature: Novels, Computers, and the Threat of
Obsolescence." Contemporary Literature 43, no. 3 (Fall, 2002):
518-59. Compares John Barth to Richard Powers.
- Michaud, Charles. "Collecting
Richard Powers." Firsts (February 2005): 34-39. A
novel-by-novel review of Powers's output, with a sidebar on how to
identify first editions, along with estimated prices.
- Weinberg, Steve, "Richard Powers."
Bookmarks (September/October 2006): 22-27. Long
retrospective on Powers's entire writing career to date.
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