Rick Moody

  • The war for the soul of literature

    Two critics, one revered and the other almost universally reviled, protest that the literary world has been taken over by big, bad, "ambitious" novels.
    By Laura Miller July 15, 2004

  • He's a lover -- and also a hater

    Dale Peck, the madman critic famous for his trash jobs on Moody, Eggers and Franzen, talks about forgiving his abusive father in his new "fictional memoir" and wonders why we can't all get along.
    By Virginia Vitzthum December 12, 2003

  • Pecked

    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.
    By Heather Caldwell July 24, 2002

  • Writing in the dark

    For those of us charged with making sense of life after the attack, the hard work is just beginning.
    By Rick Moody September 18, 2001

  • Joyful noise

    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.
    May 17, 2001

  • The Young Lions

    Ethan Hawke reads from the works of the finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, with an introduction by Rick Moody.
    May 1, 2001

  • Family demons

    Salon's books editor speaks with author Rick Moody about the making of his new collection of stories, "Demonology."
    Interview by Laura Miller February 6, 2001

  • The exorcist

    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."
    By Michele Scarff February 5, 2001

  • "Demonology" by Rick Moody

    A collection of inventive and passionate stories by one of today's most acclaimed young writers.
    By Amy Benfer January 11, 2001

  • Rick Moody

    "The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven"
    By Rick Moody October 5, 2000

  • Sex, capitalism and antidepressants

    By Rick Moody and Mary Gaitskill
    By August 18, 2000

  • Sex, capitalism and antidepressants

    Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark.
    By Rick Moody and Mary Gaitskill August 14, 2000

  • Incognito

    The author of "The Ice Storm" picks seven favorite books with veils in them.
    By Rick Moody July 28, 2000

  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
    By Susan Emerling October 29, 1999

  • Cutting his glossies

    New from the editor of the late, lamented satirical rag Might comes McSweeney's, a magazine for writing that was killed by big-league glossies.
    By James Poniewozik October 20, 1998
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