When prose gets too stylized and out of control – and Stein is sometimes a good example – when you don’t know what the hell is going on, then it’s kind of boring. Rick Moody Read Quote
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That’s material that I really like. Rick Moody Read Quote
I’m trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. Rick Moody Read Quote
I’m trying to make sure that there’s comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. Rick Moody Read Quote
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. Rick Moody Read Quote
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I’m trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. Rick Moody Read Quote
