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Rick Moody

(b.1961)

Rick Moody is the author of Demonology, Purple America, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, The Ice Storm and Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award. He is a past recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Moody has contributed fiction and essays to most major publications and has been widely anthologized. He lives in New York.

Novels

   Garden State (1992)
   The Ice Storm (1994)
   Purple America (1997)
   The Diviners (2005)
   The Four Fingers of Death (2010)
   Hotels of North America (2015)

Collections

   The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven (1995)
   Demonology (2000)
   Right Livelihoods (2007)
     aka The Omega Force

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Books containing stories by Rick Moody

Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields

Fakes (2012)
An Anthology of Pseudo-interviews, Faux-lectures, Quasi-letters,
edited by
David Shields and Matthew Vollmer

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

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Award nominations

2004 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Albertine Notes

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The Devil is a Southpaw (2025)
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The Four Spent the Day Together (2025)
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"I always so admire the work of Chris Kraus for the astringent truths contained there. The Four Spend the Day Together is no exception. What a sharp, smart, unsettling, memorable work it is."

Stop All the Clocks (2025)
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"Noah Kumin is a powerhouse of contemporary thinking about literary writing and Stop All the Clocks is the evidence that he can write it extremely well too. What an auspicious debut, both unusual and uncompromising."

Too Soon (2025)
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"Too Soon is funny, startling, fresh, deeply felt, moving, and full of an important commitment to the complexities of character. It also sings of a subject that is deeply necessary in a way that is new and full of energy. I admire this work."

Blue Light Hours (2024)
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"Bruna Dantas Lobato is one of those examples with which we are gratifyingly reassured that the future of literature is bright indeed."

Y/N (2023)
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"Esther Yi's every paragraph is revelatory, unexpected, with an intense capacity to see the world anew, such that we are empowered again in the matter of astonishment. I admire her work so much."

Book of Knives (2022)
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"Lise Haines, in Book of Knives, as in all her work, is an astute psychologist, a cool, unsentimental investigator of humans, who often locates the hard truths. In a time of circumspection, her bracing recognition of a more complex human consciousness hits the spot. I admire her work and her sensibility."

The Rabbit Hutch (2022)
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"Tess Gunty is a younger writer of uncommon originality, both in terms of voice and vision. I admire her work and expect to be reading it with especial delight for a long time to come."

Another Love Discourse (2022)
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"Edie Meidav is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and this is her best book. It's open, wounded, true."

What Happens at Night (2020)
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"Peter Cameron has long been among my favorite contemporary writers. He’s a compassionate and unsparing surveyor of all that comprises human character. What Happens at Night finds its home among the mid-twentieth-century classics of psychological realism, as brutal, in its way, as The Sheltering Sky, and just as memorable, just as peopled with the deep human mysteries. This new novel is a powerful and admirable addition to Cameron's estimable body of work."

The Odditorium (2012)
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