Trinity Talks: Richard Powers
Bestselling author Richard Powers discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, and explores our relationship with nature, our understanding of time, and the defiant act of hope in the face of the climate crisis.
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory and Orfeo, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award.
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This event will be livestreamed as well as in-person. In-person tickets are sold out, but a limited number of free online tickets are still available.
If you have a ticket to attend in person, doors will open at 6pm. Please enter the event at Trinity Church (89 Broadway) and you will be directed to Trinity Commons. Complimentary refreshments will be available, as well as books for purchase. RSVP for free tickets. Seating is first come, first served.
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Storytelling as a Medium for Change
Stories dig deep and open within us new ways of seeing and being in the world. They challenge worn-out narratives and birth fresh perspectives, illuminating the endless ways we’re connected to one another and to all life on this planet.
Join Trinity as we welcome storytellers whose work invites us to consider our place in this interconnected story — and how our awareness, presence, and action can influence its unfolding.
Bestselling author Richard Powers discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, and explores our relationship with nature, our understanding of time, and the defiant act of hope in the face of the climate crisis.
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory and Orfeo, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award.
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This event will be livestreamed as well as in-person. In-person tickets are sold out, but a limited number of free online tickets are still available.
If you have a ticket to attend in person, doors will open at 6pm. Please enter the event at Trinity Church (89 Broadway) and you will be directed to Trinity Commons. Complimentary refreshments will be available, as well as books for purchase. RSVP for free tickets. Seating is first come, first served.
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Storytelling as a Medium for Change
Stories dig deep and open within us new ways of seeing and being in the world. They challenge worn-out narratives and birth fresh perspectives, illuminating the endless ways we’re connected to one another and to all life on this planet.
Join Trinity as we welcome storytellers whose work invites us to consider our place in this interconnected story — and how our awareness, presence, and action can influence its unfolding.
Speakers
Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels that explore connections among disciplines as disparate as photography, artificial intelligence, musical composition and performance, ecology, genomics, game theory, virtual reality, race, biology, and business. His books have won numerous recognitions, including The Rosenthal and Vursell Awards; the James Fenimore Cooper Prize; the Corrington Award; a PEN/Hemingway Special Citation; the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, two Pushcart Prizes, and TIME Magazine's Book of the Year. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award. He won the W.H. Smith Literary Award for best novel of 2003, and the Ambassador Book Award in 2004. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award. He has twice been a finalist for the Man-Booker Prize. The Overstory was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
Powers makes his home in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, where he is an avid hiker and a student of the incredible diversity of life in the Southern Appalachians. His favorite hobby is holding still.
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