Web Resources:
- Tabbi, Joseph.
A Review of Books in the Age
of Their Technological Obsolescence. World Wide Web. 1995.
Electronic Book Review, Winter 95-96, number 1. On book reviewing,
electronic media, Bruce Sterling, and Galatea 2.2.
- Fitz, Peter.
A Gold Bug
Companion. World Wide Web. 1996. Includes: "The Gold
Bug Companion originated as a project of Language as Technology at the
University of Baltimore in the Spring of 1996."
- LeClair, Tom.
"The Prodigious Fiction of
Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace."
Critique 38 (Fall, 1996): 12-37.
- Miller, Laura.
"The
Salon Interview: Richard Powers" Salon (July 1998).
- Alperowitz, Michael.
"Orpheus im Elekronenhirn: Ein Multimedia-Projekt im
Latein-Leistungskurs." Published on the web site of the
Landesinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht (July 10 1998)
- Powers, Richard.
Faculty web page.
Information on his current course offerings, access to sound file, and a
great caricature!
- Powers, Richard.
Chapter One excerpted from Plowing the Dark.
- Williams, Jeffrey.
"The Last
Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers." Cultural Logic.
2.2 (Spring 1999). Excellent interview, dated November 1998, with
good biographical detail on Powers, from his years in Bangkok as a
teeneager through the writing of Plowing the Dark.
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"Richard Powers
Eats Peanut Butter Sandwich." An amusing account,
metafictional, of Powers talking about hypertext while eating a peanut
butter sandwich.
- Birkerts, Sven.
"The Esquire Conversation: Richard Powers and Sven Birkerts."
Esquiremag.com. (July 2000) Discussion of the ideas behind
Plowing the Dark.
- 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.
- Watts, Ann Levgold.
"Richard Powers." November 2, 2000. Web page for her course on
Internet Research Techniques at Des Moines Community College. Includes
some annotations of particular aspects of GBV.
- Lannan Foundation
Audio Archives.
Recorded transcript of a Powers reading at the Lannan Foundation, Sana
Fe, December 6, 2000. Also includes a question and answer session
with Powers and David Foster Wallace, hosted by John O'Brien.
- Leonard, John.
"Mind Painting." The New York Review of Books. 48.1
(January 11 2001): 42-48. Ostensibly a review of Plowing the Dark, this
is a full-blown evaluative appreciation of Powers's work to date. Sample
quote: "Everybody else just talks about alienation, estrangement, and
the unbearable lightness of being. [Powers] actually does something
about them. ... He will use everything we know from our higher brain
functions about mind and body and art and longing, to find patterns and
to close distances."
- Silverblatt, Michael.
Bookworm Interview. An audio transcript of Powers's
appearance on the nationally syndicated radio book review program
produced by KCRW (Los Angeles).
- Cundiff, Greg. "The Gold Bug
Variations." Still trying to figure out
exactly what this is. Seems to be an effort to use hypertext to comment
on and elucidate The Gold Bug Variations. Includes three
essays so far (May 2001), including
-
Richard Powers
Group on Yahoo Groups. Formed November 2001 to facilitate discussion
of Powers's work. Registration required.
- National Public Radio, Talk of the
Nation:
"Humans and Their Machines." Audio and print transcript of
Powers's appearance on NPR radio alongside Rodney Brooks and Anne Foerst.
- An
audio excerpt from The Time of Our Singing, read by Powers.
- Abkemeier, Kristin. Radioactive Banana
[blog]. "Richard Powers Watch." Available at
http://www.radioactive-banana.com/blog/category/rabid-fandom/the-richard-powers-watch/.
First post, December 31, 2005. Tracking information about upcoming
Richard Powers work.
- Champion, Edward (editor). "Echo
Maker Roundtable." Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: A
Blog In Tenebrous Standing. (October 2006). A five-part roundtable
discussion of The Echo Maker, with participants Judith Zissman, Jessica
Stockton, Sarah Weinman, Levi Asher, Jenny Davidson, Dan Wickett, Megan
Sullivan, Edward Champion, and Richard Powers.
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