The interview that @everett_hamner conducted with Richard Powers in this weekend's @LAReviewofBooks (h/t to @greenlitcrit) is a must-read: https://t.co/5LZUQOXwhH!
— Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) April 8, 2018
"When a person says, 'I live in the real world,' they generally mean that they live in the artificially created social world, the human-made world that is hurtling toward a brick wall of its own making."
— Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) April 8, 2018
"The challenge is that a 'good story' often seems to mean one that makes us feel good about ourselves by privileging individual choices and fates and reinforcing the illusion of human centrism."
— Richard Powers
"But I am a sucker for another kind of story, one where people must lose themselves and their private narratives in an unseen network of connections that runs far beyond their own small selves, even beyond their own species."
— Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) April 8, 2018
— Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) April 8, 2018
There is something genuinely inspiring about the clarity of his responses to the dire condition of the now in which we're stuck. It's also easy to see why The Lost Scrapbook made such a strong impression upon Powers all those years ago.
— Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) April 8, 2018
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