Rick Moody
Rick Moody
Hiram Frederick "Rick" Moody IIIis an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike, and in 1999 The New Yorker chose him as one of America's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 October 1961
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.
God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.