Episode · How I Write · 2024-10-09
David Perell & Richard Powers: books mentioned on How I Write
Meet Pulitzer-Winning Stanford Professor (Richard Powers Interview)
David Perell recommended The Overstory by Richard Powers. Richard Powers discussed an actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski, MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville, and White Noise by Don DeLillo and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that intertwines the lives of several Americans whose fates are connected to trees and environmental activism.
Recommended“Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for the over story in 2019 and and I had some friends who recommended it to me”
Where to get it
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an actor Prepares
Discussed“and how how to uh an actor prepares is one of one of his works and you know how how to inhabit a role of someone on stage who isn't you”
Where to get it
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
Discussed“you got to go back to mobi dick where you got to go back to the frontier”
Where to get it
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White Noise
White Noise by Don DeLillo is a seminal 1984 postmodern novel that chronicles contemporary consumerism, academic satire, and the omnipresence of mass media and pop culture.
Discussed“and you could look at a book like white noise and you could look at the dialogue in that book which is crazy you know”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“well I'm very close to the to the people in playground still”
“and then as I got deeper into into over story it was oh this guy you know it's not a red oak”