- Heijne, Bas. "Een Vlinder Ontketent
een Storm." NRC Handelsblad (March 15, 1991): CS Literair 6.
- Dudar, Helen. "Publishing: the Powers
Parfait." Wall Street Journal (August 14, 1991): A8 (W); A6
(E). Interview.
- Baker, John F., and Sybil S. Steinberg.
"PW Interviews: Richard Powers." Publishers Weekly 238
(August 16, 1991): 37-38. Profile.
- Romano, Carlin. "Brainiest Young Star of
Fiction." Philadelphia Inquirer (September 6, 1991): 1D+.
Interview with Powers on appearance of GBV.
- McGonigle, Thomas. "Going Dutch."
Newsday (July 28, 1992): 28. Interview with Powers and rev. of
GBV.
- Stites, Janet. "Bordercrossings: a
Conversation in Cyberspace." Omni 16 (November, 1993):
38-40+. Panel discussion via email amongst Powers, N.K. Hayles, and J.
Labinger.
- Berube, Michael. "Urbana Renewal."
Village Voice 40.23 (June 6, 1995): SS8-SS10. Title also
given as "I and i: Will the Real Richard Powers Please Stand Up?".
Interview with Richard Powers, and with richard powers (of Galatea 2.2)
simultaneously.
- Smith, Wes. "Hidden Talent."
Chicago Tribune (July 5, 1995): Tempo 1-2.
- Greenman, Ben. "Topic of Cancer"
Time Out New York (May 28-June 4, 1998): 62. Interview with
Powers about Gain.
- Birkerts, Sven. "Richard Powers."
BOMB, (Summer 1998): 58-63. Interview.
- Unsigned. "Everybody's Business."
City Pages (Minneapolis-St. Paul). (June 24, 1998): 31-32.
Interview with Powers about Gain.
- Cryer, Dan. "Talking With Richard
Powers: The Master of Contrasts." Newsday (July 26, 1998): B11.
- Tortorello, Michael.
"Richard Powers: Industrial
Evolution." Rain Taxi (no date). Interview with Powers,
focusing generally, but not exclusively, on Gain.
- Miller, Laura.
"The
Salon Interview: Richard Powers." Salon (July 1998).
- Neilson, Jim.
"An Interview with Richard Powers." Review of Contemporary
Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 13-23.
- Williams, Jeffrey.
"The Last
Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers." Cultural Logic.
2.2 (Spring 1999). Excellent interview with good biographical detail on
Powers, from his years in Bangkok as a teenager through the writing of
Plowing the Dark.
- Riley, John Erik. "En Pasjonert
Tragikk." Vinduet (Oslo) (Volume 52) (1999). Also appears
in a slightly different form online as
"En optimistisk pessimist." Standart (V. 99, n. 2) An
interview with Powers, in Norwegian, around the time of the European
publication of Gain.
- Morrow, Bradford and Walter Abish.
American Fiction: States of the Art. Annandale-on-Hudson,
N.Y. : Bard College, 2000. Includes
"A Dialogue"
between Richard Powers and Bradford Morrow. 481 p. ISBN: 0941964507.
Published also as no. 34 of Conjunctions.
- Quinn, Brad. "Soap Opera." City
Beat (Cincinnati). (January 27-February 2, 2000): 44.
- Birkerts, Sven.
"The Esquire Conversation: Richard Powers and Sven Birkerts."
Esquiremag.com. (July 2000). Discussion of the ideas behind
Plowing the Dark.
- Hendricks, Jefferson. "Richard Powers:
On the Novel in the Digital Age." Poets & Writers. 28.4
(July/August 2000): 26-32. Interview with Powers covering early years,
the nature of fiction, Plowing the Dark, and reading and teaching.
Includes excerpt from Plowing the Dark. Two photos by Heather Conley.
- Blume, Harvey.
"Two Geeks On Their Way To Byzantium: A Conversation With Richard
Powers." Atlantic Unbound. (July 28 2000). Explores the
use of the computer as motif in Powers' work.
- Flanders, Judith. "The Greatest Author
You've Never Heard Of." The Daily Telegraph (UK). (April 21,
2001).
- Drew, Emily.
"Richard Powers Visits Davidson With Insights on Intersection of Science
and Liberal Arts." Davidson News & Events. (November 6,
2001). Available on the web at . Excellent account, with photos, of
Powers's visit to Davidson College, where he gave lectures and
interviews over a span of three days. Drew's interview with Powers is
interspersed with narrative accounts of the various seminars and
lectures.
- Sonntags Zeitung (March 24,
2002). Interview with Powers over Plowing the Dark.
- Steinfeld, Thomas.
"Analoges Leben: Der Schriftsteller Richard Powers über Schreiben und
Programmieren." Suddeutsche Zeitung (June 17 2002). Interview with Powers.
- Kemper, Hella. "Neues Von Morgen Schon
Heute." Welt (Hamburg). (June 20, 2002).
- Biesel, Elke. "Besuch in Van Goghs
Zimmer." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (June 21, 2002).
- Anonymous. "Wir Spielen Schöpfer."
Frankfurter Rundschau (June 22, 2002): 34. Interview with Powers
about Plowing the Dark.
- Kunckel, Susanne. "Endstation
Cyberspace." Welt am Sonntag (June 23, 2002). Feature and
interview with Powers about Plowing the Dark.
- Baumgärtel, Tilman. "Digitalisiertes
Erzählen." Die Tagesspiegel (June 26, 2002).
- "Braving Racism in Mid-Century
America." The Bookseller (UK) (January 10, 2003): 30.
- Foley, Dylan, "On Race and Family."
Newark Star-Ledger (January 19, 2003): 10.4.
- Eakin, Emily,
"The
Author as Science Guy." The New York Times (February 18,
2003): B1.
- Brocks, Emma,
"Magic Powers." The Guardian (UK) (March 14, 2003): G2
- Berger, Kevin, "The Art of Fiction
CLXXV: Richard Powers." The Paris Review 164 (Winter, 2003).
Read a short
excerpt from the interview.
- Fuller, Randall, "An Interview With
Richard Powers." The Missouri Review v.XXVI no. 1 (2003): 97-113.
Wide-ranging interview including statements by Powers about his own
views of the purpose of his fiction, its structural components, and its
place within the narrative tradition.
- Keller, Julia,
"Arts and Sciences." The Chicago Tribune (March 4, 2004):
Section 2, Page 1.
- Rossi, Umberto, “Richard Powers: Il
romanziere transatlantico”, Pulp Libri #49, May-June 2004,
pp. 2-17.
- Patterson,
Troy,
"Q and A Richard Powers: The high-IQ author crafts a literal brainteaser
in his new novel." Time Out New York (September 13,
2006)
- Lyons, Stephen J., "His
Muse Lives in the Midwest." Chicago Sun-Times
(October 1, 2006)
- Owens, Jill, "Richard
Powers's Narrative Impulse." Powells.com n.d. (October,
2006).
- Silberman, Steve, "Scientific
Fiction." Wired (November, 2006). p. 090
- Lyons, Stephen J. "The
Genius in the Cornfield." Chicago Reader. (November 3, 2006).
Interview focusing on The Echo Maker, but venturing into questions about
technology. Photo by Jason Lindsey.
- Freeman, John, "Richard
Powers." Saint Louis Post-Dispatch (November 19, 2006)
Reprinted in various places, including an expanded version in
The Independent (UK) (December 15, 2006) And The Australian
(December 23, 2006)
- Berger, Kevin, "The
Presence of Mind." The Los Angeles Times (December 10,
2006)
- Gross, Terry, "Richard
Powers" Fresh Air, National Public Radio (December 12, 2006)
- Pierleoni, Allen, "Life
Science." Sacramento Bee (December 18, 2006) p. E2
- Michod, Alec, "Richard
Powers" The Believer (February 2007) p. 64
- Pellegrin, Jean-Yves, "Only
the Conversation Matters." European Journal of American Studies,
EJAS-1 (April 27, 2007)
- Muntendorf, Caroline, "Operational Wondering"
mono.kultur #12 (June and
July, 2007). An issue of the German literary magazine devoted to a long
interview with Powers.
- Daio Keli, "The Human Race is Still a Work in
Progress: an Interview with Richard Powers." Foreign Literature
Studies (Wuhan, China) vol. 29, #4 (August, 2007) pp. 1-6. English,
with Chinese annotations.
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