Rick Moody

Novelist

1961-10-18

Books by Rick Moody

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There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?
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There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
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