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Re: [percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books

From: "Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
To: Percy-L <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 04:54:38 -0500

Fascinating interview, Lauren. Thanks for sharing. Reminds me a bit of
Albert Schweitzer’s driving philosophy of developing “reverence for life” -
that is, reverence for all creation in the universe, from our fellow human
beings to nature itself. I don’t know Powers’ spiritual or religious
background, and those given his affinity for Percy. Anyone care to chime in
about Powers?

> On Jan 12, 2019, at 8:35 AM, Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Of what use is the writer or poet unless he attains a new vision of life?
> It is precisely why we read Dr Percy the innovator who helps to form the
> great chain of creative literature. He didn’t sit comfortably down in the
> ruins and piece together shards. Richard Powers too speaks to our human
> horizon and predicament and brings in
> Dr Percy to show how humans must “hold the gain” in their cultivated souls.
>
>
>
> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heres-to-unsuicide-an-interview-with-richard-powers/
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>

[percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books, Lauren Berdy, 01/12/2019
- Re: [percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books, Henry P. Mills, 01/15/2019
  - Re: [percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books, John Pearson, 01/16/2019
    - Re: [percy-l] Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers - Los Angeles Review of Books, Lauren Berdy, 01/17/2019