Wall Street Journal Interview with Powers

This interview centers on Generosity.

From the intro:

As novelists go, Richard Powers may be uniquely qualified to write about the budding genomics industry. In 1991, he wrote "The Gold Bug Variations," a novel about scientists who discovered the chemical structure of DNA. In 2008, he became one of the first nine people in the world to have his entire genome sequenced —a process that involves mapping out and analyzing some six billion DNA nucleotides. The experiment showed, among other things, that Mr. Powers, 52 years old, shares genetic traits with the Yoruba population of Ibadan, Nigeria, and that his 11th chromosome carries a longer version of the DRD4 gene, which predisposes him to seeking out new experiences.