Rick Moody
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Cecilia Alemani, Rick Moody and Laurel Nakadate attend a dinner in honour of Frieze Project Artists hosted by Frieze Art Inc and Mulberry at Crown on May 4, 2012 in New York City.
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There's something about a naive apprehension of art that makes it that much nobler to me
You look at the most recent novels by Colson Whitehead, Gary Shteyngart, Rick Moody, Cormac McCarthy. There’s almost been a little floodlet of so-called ‘literary’ writers either embracing or circling around clear literary genres.
Rick Moody is one of those writers you can't ignore because you don't know what he'll come up with next....Yes, on the surface it's Moody's daring and talent that exhilarate us, but on a deeper level we recognize the effort his people make to memorize their losses, to somehow keep alive what can't be saved, to placate their demons.More quotes »
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Making the New
Harry and a boatload of other superstars), a creepily-good minimalist remix of their song “Big Little Wolfs” by author Rick Moody, and lots of digital noise around a few artful videos, things are looking good for Aeroplane Pageant. In a way, things have always Read more »
Around the web
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‘On Celestial Music,’ by Rick Moody
Chris Morphet/Redferns The technique versus the pyrotechnics: Pete Townshend in 1970. Some of my favorite music writing of the last decade has turned up in novels: the precise absurdist riffs and def(t) beats of Paul Beatty’s “Slumberland”; the beatific 2:31 PM from The New York Times Read more »
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John Cheever remembered at centennial
Sunday would have been the 100th birthday of John Cheever, the great short story writer and novelist (Falconer, The Wapshot Chronicle, Bullet Park) who died in 1982 but continues to be cited as an influence by contemporary writers including Dave Eggers a from USA Today Read more »
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NYS Summer Writers Institute 2012
Some of the names you might recognize: Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Russell Banks, Claire Messud, William Kennedy (of course), and more... JULY 3: Louise Gluck (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry) and Car from All Over Albany Read more »
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Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?
Even as print publications are getting rid of reviewers, websites and podcasts offer new ways of approaching literature. In his 1946 essay "Confessions of a Book Reviewer," George Orwell outlined the changes he'd make to the standard, 600-word format of from The Atlantic Read more »
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Curating short fiction: Recommended Reading
The quarterly journal Electric Literature, which publishes simultaneously in print, ebook, iPhone and Kindle form, is always up for trying something new. It regularly invites animators to create short videos of single sentences from its stories, like the from Los Angeles Times Read more »
