Another Post on Powers's Talk in Miami

Blog posting at Open Page, the blog of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, entitled "‘Brainiac’ novelist Richard Powers: Meaning trumps happiness"

Powers noted, just before he started reading, that “happily” this year brought news calling the “depression gene” study into question. “I was exhilarated,” Powers said.

“It turns out happiness is complicated,” Powers said. “We are confusing happiness with gratification. Happiness is not a commodity that can be bought and sold. It is a process, a long process. We don’t want happiness, we want meaning.”

And a good place to find it is in the challenging, provocative and sometimes funny and romantic novels of Richard Powers.