SINGAPORE – American author Richard Powers likes to be alone in the woods. He lives in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, a place so remote that when he needs to do publicity for a new book, he has to relocate an hour away to somewhere with sufficient bandwidth to conduct a Zoom interview.
In July, he returned from a camping trip to learn his 13th novel, Bewilderment, had been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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