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I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

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Rick Moody
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Hiram Frederick III Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III
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