I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. - Rick Moody
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
- Rick Moody
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. - Rick Moody
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some … - Rick Moody
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some …
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-o… - Rick Moody
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-o…
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. - Rick Moody
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. - Rick Moody
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. - Rick Moody
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. - Rick Moody
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I w… - Rick Moody
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I w…
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