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I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.
Rick Moody
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Rick Moody
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Hiram Frederick III Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III
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I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.
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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
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I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
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I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.
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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-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.
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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!
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
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I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.
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