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Wow, my favorite American novelist Richard Powers won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Overstory.

Congratulations on your award from Japan.


Memory of ‪'Richard Powers's The Overstory' in This Weblog


2017/11/26
Memorandum

New novel in Spring 2018

Richard Powers’s new novel, The Overstory, published by Norton, is due in bookstores April 3, 2018, and from William Heinemann in UK April 12.

Richard Powers is, to my mind, one of the greatest living American novelists. He is certainly one of the most formidable, rewarding authors I have ever read. This new novel is endlessly fascinating, extraordinary and utterly unforgettable.”  (Jason Arthur, publisher)

A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most “prodigiously talented”(New York Times Book Review) novelists.


☆I'm looking forward to seeing his new world.


2018/05/05
Impressive Literary Words Today


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.


2018/10/28
Impressive Literary Words


”The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”


― Richard Powers（American novelist）, The Overstory



☆Good words! The only person who can say so is a good storyteller like you, Mr. Powers. Thanks a lot for your important clue.