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"The Best Place for It." The New
Yorker 63 (February 1, 1988): 28-35. Excerpt from Prisoner's
Dilemma.
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"State and Vine: Vineland." Yale
Review 79.4 (Summer, 1990): 690-698. Review of Pynchon's
Vineland.
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"Hard Ones." Harper's Magazine
283 (August, 1991): 37. Excerpt from Gold Bug Variations.
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"We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder."
Grand Street 10.1 (Winter, 1991): 182. Excerpt from Gold Bug
Variations.
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"Een
Amerikaan in Holland." De Groene Amsterdammer (March 11,
1992):24-25. Essay by Powers on the creative uses of cultural
misunderstanding. Reprinted in Joustra, Arendo (editor),
Vreemde Ogen. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 1993.
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"A Game We Couldn't Lose." New
York Times. (February 18 1996): IV, 13:1. Op-Ed article on Gary
Kasparov's chess match against IBM's Deep Blue computer. (865 words)
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with Bruno Latour. "Two Writers Facing
One Turing Test: A Dialog in Honor of HAL Between Richard Powers and
Bruno Latour." Common Knowledge, 7.1: 177-191. Text
prepared for the Cyberfest, March, 14, 1997, Urbana-Champaign.
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"Losing Our Souls, Bit by Bit."
New York Times. (July 15 1998): A, 19:2. Op-Ed article on the
encroachment of online technologies into our personal lives. (1060
words)
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"Life By Design: Too Many
Breakthroughs." New York Times. (November 19 1998): A,
32:5. Op-Ed piece on biotechnology. (780 words)
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“Eyes Wide Open.” New York Times
Magazine (April 18, 1999): 80- 83. An assessment of the greatest
ideas and accomplishments of the millennium.
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“Escapes.” Esquire 131.7
(July, 1999): 86. Excerpt from Plowing the Dark.
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[excerpt from Plowing the Dark]
Conjunctions. 33 (Fall 1999).
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"Being and Seeming: the Technology of
Representation." Context. 3 (2000).
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"All That Is Solid Melts Into Air"
[excerpt from Plowing the Dark]. Harper's
300:1800 (May 2000): 20, 22-23.
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"American Dreaming: The Limitless
Absurdity of Our Belief In an Infinitely Transformable Future."
New York Times Magazine. (May 7 2000): 67. Powers comments on a
survey indicating Americans think they can be whoever they want to be.
(1671 words)
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"Sein und Schein: Zur Technologie der
Darstellung." Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur. 56
(Mai 2001). Translation of "Being and Seeming: the Technology of
Representation" (see above).
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"The Simile." New York Times
Magazine 151:51885 (September 23, 2001): 21-22. Powers is one of
several authors sharing personal reflections on the events of September
11, 2001. He reflects on the inadequacy of similes to covey the effect
of the attacks.
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"Ba-Da Bang." New York Times
Magazine. 151:51983 (December 30, 2001): 49. Powers remembers
British astrophysicist and science fiction author Sir Fred Hoyle.
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"Singing." (excerpt from The Time
of Our Singing) Conjunctions. 37 (Fall 2001): 12-18.
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"Und was kommt dann? Je mehr die Medizin
vermag, umso mehr gleicht sie der Erzählkunst: Beide sollen zeigen, was
die Zukunft bringt." Suddeutscher Zeitung. (August 10,
2002). A meditation on the parallels between storytelling and medicine,
and on their ability to show the future. Translated into German by
Joachim Kalka.
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"From The
Time of Our Singing." Tin House 4.1 (Fall, 2002): 42-52.
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Entry in
Harmon, James, L, (editor), Take My Advice: Letters to the Next
Generation, Simon and Schuster (2002): 77-8.
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"Literary
Devices." Zoetrope 6.4 (Winter, 2002): 8-15. A piece on
"self-telling" fiction in the digital age. Reprinted in
Lightman, Alan, et. al. (editor) Living With The Genie, Island Press
(2003): 5-21. Reprinted in Henderson, Bill, (editor), 2004
Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses (2003): 326-341.
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"From the
Files--John Barth: An Introduction." The Paris Review. 45, no.
167, (2003): 292 (3 pages)
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Im Labor
der Nomaden: Neue us-amerikanische Literatur. Vorwort
[preface] by Richard Powers. Germany: Wehr, Norbert, 2003. ISBN:
3924071160. Includes work by Ben Marcus, David Markson, and Curtis
White. Edited by Guido Graf; translations by Marcus Ingendaay, Eike
Schoenfeld, and Nikolaus Stingl.
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"Improvisations." PEN America, Volume 3, Issue 5 (2004): 15 (2
pages). Excerpt from Galatea 2.2.
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"Introduction." Hughes, Brigid (editor), Paris Review Book of Planes,
Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms, Picador (2004): (ISBN:
0312433407). Reprinted in edited extract as "Real Time Bandits," in
The Guardian (UK) Review (August 14, 2004), p. 3
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"Kincatenate."
Foer, Jonathan Safran, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers (editors), The
Future Dictionary of America. McSweeny's (2004): (ISBN:
1-932416-20-X).
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"They
Come in a Steady Stream Now." A piece written by Powers for
BBC radio, turned into an interactive digital work by Jessica Mullen for
the web counterpart of the magazine Ninth Letter.
(December, 2004)
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"I
remember the thing homing in..." Short appreciation of Thomas
Pynchon in a special edition of Bookforum Volume 12, Issue 2
(June-September, 2005) p. 40.
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"Cranes."
Excerpt from novel in progress, in
Black Clock number 3
(Spring, 2005). p 1.
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"The Seventh
Event." Article in Granta 90:
Country Life (Summer, 2005) p. 57.
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"My Music." in
Gramophone
(October 2005), p. 170.
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"In den Docks."
Neue Rundschau (No. 2, 2005), p. 83-86.
Translated into German by Manfred
Allié. Reprinted in Mein Klassiker:
Autoren Erzählen vom Lesen, Fischer Verlag (Frankfurt am Main: 2008)
p. 115-119.
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"Wat er niet meer
is." De Standaard der Letteren (November 25, 2005), p. 8-9.
Cover story on memory, phantom pain, and a belated return to Belgium.
Translated into Dutch by Geert Lernout.
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"Meer der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten." Profil
48:36
(November 28, 2005), p. 143-145. On Mozart's discovery of Bach
Translated into German by Manfred
Allié and Gabrielle Kempf-Allié
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"An artificial being."
in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds) Making things public:
Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press, pp.
614-619.
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"A Head
for Music." The New York Times. (Jan. 8, 2006): 4:14. Op-ed
article on the efforts of researchers to gain insight into Mozart's
genius via scientific analysis of his putative skull. 898 words.
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"A Brief Take on Genetic Screening."
The
Believer. (March, 2006). p.
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"De taal van het leven: een ruwe schets." Dietsche
Warande & Belfort 06: 2 (April,
2006), p. 212-223. An essay on writing science-based fiction.
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"The
Global Distributed Self-Mirroring Subterranean Neurological Soul-Sharing
Picture Show." Japanese Book News 48 (Summer 2006) p. 2-14. An
essay on the fiction of Haruki Murakami.
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Bradshaw, Sara, et al.
Nine Novels by Younger Americans. Foreword by Richard Powers. San
Francisco: 826 Books, 2007. Includes work by Sara Bradshaw, Rachel
Barber, Daniel Cowen, Sarah Meira Rosenberg, Dylan Suher, Lucas
Gonzalez, Julia Mayer, Carolyn Maughan, and Samantha Lipman. Publisher's
description: 'This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were
written by high school students from New York City during the summer of
2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony."
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"How
to speak a book." New York Times Book Review (January
7, 2007).
