Magic Powers – Richard Powers That Is

The Guardian Looks At Richard Powers, who they say is being hailed by some critics as America’s greatest living novelist.

“A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn’t considered pathological, we are outside of time.”