Richard Powers: Writing ‘The Overstory’ Quite Literally Changed My Life
Chicago Review of Books
April 18, 2018
”Writing The Overstory quite literally changed my life, starting with where and how I live.
Researching the book, I visited the Smokies, home to the largest tracts of remaining old growth forest east of the Rockies, with six kinds of forest and more species of trees than there are in all of Europe.
I ended up staying, and I’ve lived for the last two years in this, one of the last refuges of biodiversity on the continent. Here, walking a trail has become as important to me as writing.
The Overstory is my twelfth published novel. In the past, when I finished a book, I was always ready and excited to go on to a new topic—something new and different from anything I’d written about before.
Now I just want to walk, look, listen, breathe, and write this same book, again and again, from different aspects and elevations, with characters as old and large as I am able to imagine.”
−Richard Powers
☆Wow, my favorite American novelist Richard Powers has changed his life completely.
☆He seems to be living now in the forest on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains.
☆I'm unable to take my eyes off his way of life living together with nature, which reminds me of Henry David Thoreau.
☆ ”Now I just want to walk, look, listen, breathe, and write this same book, again and again” ! I think he has firm resolution. I respect him.
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