Rick Moody
Dale Peck's Humble Pie
Dale Peck and Rick Moody are not in a fight anymore. They actually e-mailed recently, and next Tuesday night, they will appear, together, at a book-themed charity bake sale at the Montauk Club that will benefit Sangam House, a nonprofit writer’s colony in India. This is a startling thing, because Mr. Peck once reviewed one of Mr. Moody’s books in The New Republic and called him “the worst writer of his generation.” Something like a feud followed. Six years later, it is, at least superficially, coming to an end. On Tuesday, according to event organizer D. W. read more »
Moody’s Three Novellas Are Topical, But Don’t Add Up
Rick Moody’s fiction has always had a strong topical streak: He’s as concerned with particular aspects of contemporary American society—the barrenness of mass consumerism, say, or the tragically limited economic and aesthetic scope of the lower middle-class, or the dangers of nuclear power—as he is with the inner lives of his characters. read more »
'Self-Satisfied Pirhana' Have New Book!
The newspapers and cable news networks who have jumped on the Frey story, that is, are not beyond reproach. They are just as hasty as the self-satisfied pirhana at The Smoking Gun. And they're deluding themselves if they imagine that enumerating Frey's ethical lapses will cleanse them of their own.Mr. Moody did not go on to name The Smoking Gun's uncleansed "ethical lapses." But hey, Yom Kippur is just around the corner!
Flaubert's Parrots
Judy Blume Testy at Book Awards; Kid Defends 'The Five Unknowns'
The King of Splatter Crit Lays Down His Weapon
Travels With the Holy Ghost: An Orgy of Skeptical Ecstasy
Behind the Literary Veil: Lo! Just Another Narcissist
Up Close and Personal; A Death as Fiction, as Fact
Fed on Jesus Christ Superstar , A New Book of Revelation
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