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  • Richard Powers on what we do to the earth and what it does to us

    Sep 10, 2024 10:45 am by The New YorkerIllinois in the News
    Powers moved to the Great Smoky Mountains while writing “The Overstory,” which became a phenomenon by delving into the life of the forest. It also made him “the tree guy.” Will “Playground” make him “the ocean guy”? Photographs by Bryan Schutmaat for The New Yorker

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    The New Yorker (Sept. 9) Illinois alumnus, faculty member and writer Richard Powers' new novel, 'Playground,' aims to do for the oceans what 'The Overstory' did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism. 

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