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A very cool thing!
The course being taught this semester at the Rochester Institute of Technology, "Richard Powers: Literature, Philosophy, Innovation," has a wiki containing course topics, notes, and other material. Take a look--click the title link of this post to see it.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Powers Selects Charles Yu for "5 Under 35"
Charles Yu's novel, How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is reviewed in "Scotland on Sunday." Reviewer Stuart Kelly says
Yu's novel is his first, and after a publishing some short stories he was chosen for the "5 Under 35" programme, where former winners of the National Book Award selected one young writer whose work impressed them (Yu was, incidentally, the choice of the underrated Richard Powers).
Monday, October 11, 2010
New Powers Story in the New Yorker
Powers has published a short story, "To the Measures Fall," in the October 18, 2010 issue of "The New Yorker." It's his first in the magazine since February 1988, when an excerpt from the upcoming Prisoner's Dilemma made it into the august pages.
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