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    Richard Powers: Plowing the Dark

    Richard Powers' intensity and sincerity blaze through as he discusses science, personal sacrifice and the common mis-assumption that cerebral writers are without passion.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Mar 15, 2001 • 30m Listen

    Plowing the Dark (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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      Richard Powers: Plowing the Dark

      Richard Powers' intensity and sincerity blaze through as he discusses science, personal sacrifice and the common mis-assumption that cerebral writers are without passion.

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