Richard Powers: The Overstory

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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About the interdependence between humans and trees, Richard Powers found a place for the non-human in literary fiction with his new book, The Overstory.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:02.0	This is Bookworm, and today we are re-airing a May 23rd, 2019 conversation with Richard Powers
0:10.9	about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory.
0:15.8	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:24.6	Music are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. Boots! Where would we be without boos?
0:28.6	Where would we be without good?
0:30.6	No, Timberd.
0:31.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir,
0:34.6	but where would we need without books?
0:38.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:43.7	This is bookworm.
0:45.8	Richard Powers, who I've spoken to quite a few times before, has won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
0:55.1	It can only be caused for celebration.
0:59.2	I don't think that a prize confers value on a book.
1:05.6	I think a book confers value on a prize,
1:09.0	and in this case, Richard Powers' novel, The Overstory,
1:15.5	not only confers honor on the people on the committee that gave the book the award,
1:21.8	I think it confers honor and valor on the reader of the book. I think it confers honor and valor on the reader of the book. I found the book very, very moving. The words
1:38.7	awe-inspiring come up several times in the pages of the book, but I thought the book was awe-inspiring.
1:48.1	Or, as the younger generation says all the time, awesome.
1:52.9	Oh, bless you for all that.
1:54.9	I'm so glad that radio audiences can't hear me blush.
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