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	Transom Guests: Rick Moody
		Rick Moody was born in New York City.
		His album "Rick Moody and One Ring Zero" was released in 2004, and an album by The Wingdale Community Singers was released in 2005.
		Moody is a member of the board of directors of the Corporation of Yaddo.
	www.transom.org /guests/specialguests/rick_moody.html (345 words)

	Amazon.ca: Purple America: Books: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody has a unique narrative voice, to be sure, but it's far from being obtuse or inaccessible; it's more like painful interior dialogue, rendered in emotions and impressions that are simultaneously universal and foreign.
		Rick Moody delights in vivid imagery and clever metaphors (concerning a hamburger, "it's rareness almost an emergency, crimson and raw like a splatter wound").
		Moody is patient; he's not worried about rushing to the end of a sentence, paragraph, or chapter just so he can execute a clever postmodern sleight-of-hand.
	www.amazon.ca /Purple-America-Rick-Moody/dp/2743609397 (1787 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody: This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.
		Moody: The way I usually answer that question is to say that it was killing off Mikey in The Ice Storm.
		Moody: It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
	www.powells.com /authors/moody.html (3217 words)

	Bookreporter.com - DEMONOLOGY by Rick Moody
		Rick Moody is best known in the popular mind as the author of THE ICE STORM, which was made into a somewhat flawed, occasionally brilliant film a year or few ago.
		Moody also is not afraid to experiment with the structure of the short story.
		Moody, however, occasionally needs to rein in his tendency to be cute; "Pan's Fair Thong" is ultimately little more than an elegant time-waster, while "Ineluctable Modality of the Vaginal" is narrated as a single, 16-page sentence, which is ultimately a stylistic distraction from an interesting story.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0316588741.asp (597 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The Black Veil by Rick Moody, reviewed by The New Republic Online (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		No doubt Moody is even now at work on a sprawling "social novel" in the manner of The Corrections; and given his rate of output — six books in a decade — we can probably expect to see it in stores by the end of next year, just in time for Christmas.
		Moody has described his style as "a more natural albeit slightly more hysterical kind of line length." "Line length," of course, refers to poetry, not prose, but the imprecision is typical of Moody's half-thought-out rhetoric: the buzzwords here are "natural" and "hysterical," the rest are approximations, filler.
		Moody starts his books like a boxer talking trash before the bout, as if trying to make his opponent forget that the only thing that really matters is how hard and how well you throw your fists after the bell rings.
	www.powells.com.cob-web.org:8888 /review/2002_07_04.html (3504 words)

	Amazon.ca: Demonology: Books: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody's collection is framed by two stories in which the narrator ruminates over his dead sister.
		The death of a sister is the theme of the title story, too, a tale Moody confesses at the end is hardly fictional at all, echoing in his fervent first-person declarations the nonfiction stylings of Dave Eggers.
		On the whole, however, Moody is a strikingly original and ferociously smart writer with a knack for offbeat protagonists in unusually imagined situations.
	www.amazon.ca /Demonology-Rick-Moody/dp/0316588741 (1878 words)

	Amazon.com: Demonology: Books: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rick Moody is known as one of the most talented writers in the United States, and the strongest stories in this collection bear this out.
		Rick Moody is a major talent, so major that placing him in the context of other contemporary writers is difficult at best.
		Moody is Moody and he is either your cup of tea or he's not.
	www.amazon.com /Demonology-Rick-Moody/dp/0316588741 (3329 words)

	Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: Rick Moody's 'The Black Veil' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody writes a pretty sentence, but it is all mere window-dressing on a bolted house.
		Moody seems to believe his condition travels in the bloodline -- that he can't help his self-pity and shame, and that it is somehow a curse, like hair-loss (I know that hair-loss is a matriarchal gene, but you catch my drift).
		Moody employs equally ludicrous means to try to understand the implications of the veil and Hanky's guilt.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/bookshelf/bookshelf10702.html (954 words)

	CNN.com - Author Rick Moody: Classic takes - July 11, 2001
		Rick Moody: I got involved with Oxford World's Classics, simply because I have often been an admirer of their reprint program, and I knew someone who knew someone there, at Oxford University Press.
		Moody: I think a classic is simply a book that has continued to be relevant over the course of many many years.
		Moody: Isaac Babel's "Red Cavalry." These are short stories written in Russian (I read them in translation, alas) during the time of the revolution there.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/07/11/rick.moody (1077 words)

	Rick Moody - The Black Veil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody uses these pages to examine his own mind and the causes of his actions.
		Moody and family believe they are descended from Handkerchief Moody, the man on which the story is based.
		The author's obsession with Handkerchief Moody, right down to the bizarre act of wearing his own veil, is a distraction from the memoir itself.
	www.thebookhaven.net /Z_Black_Veil.html (449 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was Moody's shyness as a boy that led eventually to hospital treatment for depression and addiction - a subject he describes as "central" to his work.
		Sadness, melancholy and angst characterise most of Moody's output, whether sudden death (the boy's accidental electrocution in The Ice Storm; the story of Moody's sister's unexpected death in Demonology) or the sense of failure and self-loathing that engulfs affluent characters like Benjamin Hood (The Ice Storm) and Hex Raitliffe (Purple America).
		Rick Moody was born in 1961 in New York City and raised in Connecticut.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/features/article342752.ece (1522 words)

	Authors on the Web - Rick Moody
		Rick Moody has been consistently acclaimed for his literary novels and short stories.
		Rick Moody worked at Simon and Schuster and Farrar Straus prior to becoming a published novelist, according to a 2/21/01 New York Times interview with the author.
		Rick Moody began writing at an early age, "abandoning" two novels when he was in the sixth grade, according to a 2/21/01 New York Times interview with the author.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0205moody/moody-rick.asp (240 words)

	Five Minutes With... Harry (Rick) Moody
		Harry (Rick) Moody is the Director of the Institute for Human Values in Aging, affiliated with the International Longevity Center.
		Dr. Moody is the author of over 80 scholarly articles, as well as a number of books, including "Ethics in an Aging Society" and "The Five Stages of the Soul." He has served in numerous academic and research capacities.
		Moody: It's not easy to do this unless we believe in some higher order of meaning or spiritual growth: what many have called "Conscious Aging." We may not easily "embrace" decline but we can learn to see it differently, provided we come to recognize something in us that does NOT decline.
	www.ec-online.net /Knowledge/Articles/rickmoody.html (435 words)

	The Diviners by Rick Moody: Reviews
		Moody's first novel in seven years is a comedic look at the production of a television miniseries, set in late 2000.
		It's a measure of Moody's skill as a novelist that he analyses [the characters, the world and the entertainment industry] not with bitterness or spite but with generous humour and a deep humanity--and crafts a book of considerable beauty while doing it.
		Moody's novel, like the high-production-value shows it refers to, has an earnest sententiousness that overshadows its well-crafted fluency.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/moodyrick/diviners (754 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2002: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Author Rick Moody's first work of nonfiction lifts the veil on some of his own worst experiences, from struggling with substance abuse and depression to surviving a destructive relationship with an ex-girlfriend.
		Moody's stay in a New York psychiatric hospital as a result of his severe depression makes up the prime matter of this "memoir with digressions," but it also serves as a jumping-off point for his meditations on topics such as fathers and sons, his New England family lineage and the pain of modern-day adolescence.
		But beyond the sadness and the depression and the emotional challenges, Moody's volume functions best when it charts the interesting journey through the mind of a man trying to deal with who he is and achieve wellness at the same time.
	www.bookpage.com /0205bp/rick_moody.html (940 words)

	Rick Moody, Novelist
		Rick Moody's first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor's Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992.
		Moody's first novel in seven years, The Diviners is a comedy of capitalism run amok by “one of the most dazzlingly ambitious writers in our midst ”(Men's Journal).
		Moody's virtuoso skills are on full display in this intricate tale about the search for meaning and the ways our real lives differ from the public images we project.
	www.blueflowerarts.com /rmoody.html (1006 words)

	Amazon.de: The Diviners.: English Books: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody introduces, with great affection, a large cast of characters, all of whom are players, whether high or low, in the entertainment industry.
		Vanessa whips her staff into a frenzy while sidestepping all the usual problems--her embezzling accountant; her mother, who appears to be channeling cell-phone calls; and, oh yes, the script for the increasingly buzzworthy miniseries, which appears to be missing.
		Moody has an uncanny ability to mimic almost any form of language--script treatments, marketing taglines, Valley Girl speak--in the most hilarious fashion.
	www.amazon.de /Diviners-Rick-Moody/dp/0316013277 (567 words)

	Author's Summer Reading List - Rick Moody
		Rick Moody is the author of the novels Purple America (1997) and The Ice Storm (1994) and the story collection The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven (1995).
		In his early 20s, a lifetime of excess left Rick Moody suddenly stranded in a depression so profound that he feared for his life.
		In this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells the story of his collapse and recovery in an inspired journey through what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and healed.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer02/moody.asp (411 words)

	MPR Books - "The Black Veil" by Rick Moody
		(From the publisher) While still in his 20s, Rick Moody found that a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences had left him stranded in a depression so severe that he feared for his life.
		The Black Veil is Rick Moody's account of that debilitating passage in his life.
		In these and dozens of other places, Moody finds gleaming pieces of the past, and he weaves of them an inspired portrait of what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and finally healed.
	www.mpr.org /www/books/titles/moody_theblackveil.shtml (689 words)

	Flirting With Disaster
		Moody, who will be 40 in October, was born in New York and lived in various towns in Fairfield County, Conn., before his parents divorced in 1970.
		The Moody family, his grandfather said, could be traced back to one Handkerchief Moody, a real-life preacher whom Hawthorne took as his protagonist for ''The Minister's Black Veil,'' a short story published in 1836.
		The ''central conceptual strategy'' of his work, Moody said, is that formal invention isn't ''at some opposite end of the dialectic from emotional candor.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/01/02/25/reviews/010225.25gold.html (878 words)

	Rick Moody - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dale Peck's scathing review of Rick Moody and a dozen other writers of "postmodern drivel" has the literary world buzzing about what makes for good -- and bad -- criticism.
		In the second installment of the BOMB magazine interview series, Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke discuss their respective approaches to writing and how their own biographies come into play in their work.
		Rick Moody talks about car crashes, why a man can't really know what it's like to be a woman and his new book, "Demonology."
	dir.salon.com /topics/rick_moody (344 words)

	Rick Moody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973.
		Moody stated, "I was a clerk at [a bookstore] and I got fired after one month.
		Moody finally checked himself into a mental hospital, got sober, and then he wrote his first novel, Garden State, about young people growing up in the industrial wasteland of New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rick_Moody (538 words)

	A Different Type of Memoir: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		What Moody came up with is a "collage-oriented" memoir that not only covers his life, but also incorporates his family history (he traced his lineage back to 1683 for the book).
		For Moody, memories and truth, even in written form, bear the scars of time and prejudice: "It's usually taken as an article of faith that the process of casting memory in language is valid and important and useful.
		And it's through writing that Moody has gotten to where he is. Whether it's novels, short stories, memoirs, essays or, most recently, short-short stories, Moody says the creative process of writing assists him in keeping his own fl veil of depression at bay.
	www.writersdigest.com /articles/interview/rick_moody.asp (1053 words)

	Amazon.com: The Diviners: A Novel: Books: Rick Moody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moody’s latest novel revolves around a proposed mini-series epic that follows generations of a tribe of diviners, from the conquests of the Mongols to the founding of Las Vegas.
		It is as if Moody arrived at his computer each morning, threw down a few ideas that were in his head, spiced up the scene with some jazzy prose riffs, then went off happy, repeating the process the next day with an entirely different set of ideas.
		Reading Moody is like embarking on what you think is going to be a straightforward bit of Google fact-checking and 45 minutes later you end up reading about echidnas and Paris Hilton and having no idea how you got there.
	www.amazon.com /Diviners-Novel-Rick-Moody/dp/0316085391 (3135 words)

	Harry R. Moody
		Harry R. Moody, Ph.D., is Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC.
		He also serves as Senior Associate with the International Longevity Center-USA and Senior Fellow of Civic Ventures.
		Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel.
	www.hrmoody.com (120 words)

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		Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, Demonology, The Black Veil, et.
		When at the last edition of the Third Coast Conference, Rick Moody expressed his opinions on the way public radio documentaries were sounding all very much alike, not many reacted in the audience.
		Now, Rick Moody seems to be one that didn’t give up yet (and I hope will battle for a long time).
	talk.transom.org /WebX?14@230.ouRSafjhsak.0@.eeb6446/0 (3909 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Black Veil by Rick Moody
		While still in his twenties, Rick Moody found that a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences had left him stranded in a depression so severe that he feared for his life.
		Rick Moody has suggested that, rather than "a memoir," The Black Veil is: "A book.
		It's Moody's genius to show, with a unique blend of wrenching emotion and intellectual playfulness, how the great fl tale of our national history is reflected in the narrative of his own life—and of that of all contemporary Americans."
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/black_veil1.asp (815 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Rick Moody - Books: Meet the Writers
		"Rick Moody's The Ice Storm," wrote the Chicago Tribune's Adam Begley in 1994, "a bitter and loving and damning tribute to the American family, belongs to a subgenre I think of as suburban Gothic-tidy lawns and two-car garages, all the vulgar complacencies of affluence, mixed with brooding horror, melodramatic violence, extreme psychological states."
		Moody wore a veil during his stint at the Yaddo artists' colony, where he worked on his memoir and family history, The Black Veil.
		Moody likes to write on the road on his laptop, listening to experimental music -- as a way to avoid distraction.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=982711 (651 words)

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