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Powers, Richard. The Overstory . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Hamner, Everett. "Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers." The Atlantic . 9/12/19. <https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heres-to-unsuicide-an-interview-with-richard-powers/ >.
Rich, Nathaniel. "The Novel That Asks, ‘What Went Wrong With Mankind?’." Los Angeles Review of Books . 9/12/19. <https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heres-to-unsuicide-an-interview-with-richard-powers/ >.
Kingsolver, Barbara. "The Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall." New York Times . 9/12/19. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/books/review/overstory-richard-powers.html >.
Rashid, Aatif. "On Richard Powers’s The Overstory ." Kenyon Review . 9/12/19. <https://www.kenyonreview.org/2019/05/on-richard-powerss-the-overstory/ >.
Stanford, Claire Miye. "Speaking for the Trees: Richard Powers’s “The Overstory”." Los Angeles Review of Books . 9/12/19. <https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/speaking-for-the-trees-richard-powerss-the-overstory/ >.
Preston, Alex. " Richard Powers: ‘I’ve read more than 120 books about trees’." The Guardian . 9/12/19. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/11/richard-powers-interview-the-overstory-radicalised >.
Smith, Rosa Inocencio. "Writing the Pulitzer-Winning The Overstory Changed Richard Powers’s Life." The Atlantic . 9/12/19. <https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/04/richard-powers-pulitzer-the-overstory/587245/ >.
Paulson, Steve. "Writing the Inner Life of Trees." To The Best Of Our Knowledge . 9/12/19. <https://www.ttbook.org/interview/writing-inner-life-trees >.
Brady, Amy. "Richard Powers: Writing ‘The Overstory’ Quite Literally Changed My Life." Chicago Review of Books . 9/12/19. <https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/04/18/overstory-richard-powers-interview/ >.
John, Emma. " Richard Powers: 'We're completely alienated from everything else alive' ." The Guardian . 9/12/19. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/16/richard-powers-interview-overstory >.
"Richard Powers." Bookpage . 9/12/19. <https://bookpage.com/interviews/22518-richard-powers-fiction#.XXp4AyV7l0s >.
Wilhelmus, Tom. "Copious Agendas." Hudson Review . 9/12/19. <https://hudsonreview.com/2018/07/copious-agendas/#.XXp4MSV7l0s >.
Neary, Lynn. "Novelist Richard Powers Finds New Stories Deep In Old Growth Forests." NPR . 9/12/19. <https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/602903697/novelist-richard-powers-finds-new-stories-deep-in-old-growth-forests >.
" GMO could bring back the American chestnut. But should it? ." Christian Science Monitor . 9/21. <https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2019/0424/GMO-could-bring-back-the-American-chestnut.-But-should-it >.
"History of the American Chestnut." The American Chestnut Foundation . 9/21/19. <https://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/history-american-chestnut/ >.
"Revival of the American Chestnut." American Forests . 9/21/19. <https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/revival-of-the-american-chestnut/ >.
Toscano, Pasquale. "Overstories." Oxonian Review . 10/20/19. <http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/overstories/ >.
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