{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/d2a69c65-3300-4484-abcb-ea3e7d712478/619d255015e3720012042e0f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60eecae845fc69e6c03398b2/1637680939969-bfc79f263326973dac707b1fb4c23ee0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers joins Nihal Arthanayake to discuss his thirteenth novel, ‘Bewilderment’.</p><p><br></p><p>Using objects like Bach’s Goldberg Variation 18, an unsmoked hickory nut, and a petrified piece of redwood, Powers transport us to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains, musing on the importance of sense as an entranceway to curiosity, writing as a resistance of habituation, and the centrifugal feeling that connects the work of the artist and the scientist; that of bewilderment.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>‘Bewilderment’ is available to order on audiobook now: <a href=\"https://apple.co/3cFCDYf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://apple.co/3cFCDYf</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Penguin Books UK"}