Richard Powers

American novelist
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Richard Powers

American novelist
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Genie

In “Genie,” a short story of epic proportions, Powers goes sci-fi: he turns a failing relationship between a randy scientist and a staid statistician into a quest—not only for love and connection but for a way to connect to intelligent life in the universe. Anca is an ambitious cellular biologist determined to be the, Read More

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  • Anticipation for The Overstory
  • British and American advance reader copies released
  • New novel in Spring 2018
  • Keep America Wild
  • Playlist for The Time of Our Singing
  • Powers Reads Millhauser
  • Orfeo on 2017 student reading list
  • Project Orfeo – Duke performance
  • “Words and Music” video about Project Orfeo
  • Pre-concert event at Duke
  • Project Orfeo radio interview
  • Lindroth on Project Orfeo
  • Lindroth’s Project Orfeo composition Cadences
  • Project Orfeo at Duke on September 25
  • Cadences – inspired by Orfeo
  • Inside the Electric Earth concert: Project Orfeo
  • Project Orfeo – August 27 and September 25, 2016
  • Beach Blanket Bibliography
  • French Translation Prize for Orfeo
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