Rick Moody, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-57899-8
Moody's first foray into nonfiction is a curious amalgam of family history, literary criticism and recovery memoir. The title refers to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," which, according to Moody, is based on the
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Rick Moody, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (567p) ISBN 978-0-316-08539-7
Let it be said that Moody never suffered for want of ambition. Ostensibly about the exploits of Vanessa "Minivan" Meandro—an overweight, pathologically cruel film-and-television producer, and her attempts to produce a 13-part...
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Rick Moody, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (223p) ISBN 978-0-316-16634-8
Heavily influenced by post-9/11 paranoia, Moody's mostly successful trio of novellas pits its wayward characters against conspiracies sometimes entirely imagined. Dr. James Van Deusen, the loquacious, alcoholic, patently unreliable narrator of &#
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Rick Moody, Author . Little, Brown $25.99 (729p) ISBN 978-0-316-11891-0
No amount of familiarity with Moody's body of work will prepare a reader for this distressingly impertinent exercise in bafflement. The plot originates in 2024 with Montese Crandall, a blocked writer whose list of woes includes a wife in a coma
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Rick Moody, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-58874-4
Sending wry, heartbroken characters across the slightly tilted landscapes of his fiction, Moody fosters a low-grade bemusement in the 13 stories collected here. ""The Mansion on the Hill,"" the first and perhaps the best, follows the adventures of...
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Rick Moody, Author Little Brown and Company $21.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-316-57929-2
The author of two much-admired novels of suburban anomie here delivers 10 ingenious but uneven stories with a wide range of subjects, styles and voices. Shaped as treatments, sketches and journal entries as well as traditional short stories, these...
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Rick Moody, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-316-57921-6
Exhaustive detailing of early 1970s popular/consumer culture in suburban New England provides the context for this archetypal tale of the American nuclear family in decline. The affluent WASP community of New Canaan, Conn., is home to the Hood and...
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Rick Moody, Author Grand Central Publishing $13.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-446-67240-5
Short stories which experiment with form in delineating the hipster lives of misfits, drug addicts and the sexually adventurous. (Dec.)
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Rick Moody, Author Little Brown and Company $23.45 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-57925-4
Ambitious, stylistically dazzling and heartfelt, this fourth novel from a Pushcart Prize winner (Garden State) chronicles the meltdown in a single evening of a well-to-do Connecticut family. Dexter ""Hex"" Raitliffe--middle-aged, stuttering,...
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Rick Moody. Little, Brown, $15.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-10521-7
In this immensely rich collection of essays on music (all of which have been previously published), novelist Moody (The Ice Storm; The Four Fingers of Death) compares the pleasures we get from literature to the pleasures we get from hearing favorite
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Rick Moody. Little, Brown, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-17855-6
Moody’s (The Four Fingers of Death) clever latest explores the narrative possibilities of online reviews, that form of democratic criticism crucial to the success of everything from toaster ovens to literature itself. The novel consists primarily of
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Rick Moody. Holt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62779-844-0
Novelist Moody’s touching memoir painstakingly recounts a year in his life that overflowed with tragedies. Starting in October 2013, after Moody (The Ice Storm) married his second wife, Laurel, they endured several setbacks, the most difficult of...
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Rick Moody, Author, Mark Twain, Author, Bern Porter, Author . PictureBox $29.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-9713670-3-6
In case fans of alt-country turned art-rock band Wilco didn't get enough pertinent reading material this year—including front man Jeff Tweedy's poetry collection, Adult Head
, and rock critic Greg Kot's affectionate band bio, Wilco:
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Edited by Judy Sternlight. Simon & Schuster, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6519-8
This appealing collection, edited by Brown alum Sternlight, is neither an ode to the institution nor a glossy publicity stunt marking the university’s 250th anniversary. It’s a relaxed roundtable of reminiscences from accomplished graduates—writers,
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