BOMBlive!
Rick Moody by Darcey Steinke
The New School, New York City
April 19, 2001
The BOMBLive! Writers’ Series

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“All things being equal, I’m going for the sound.”

—Rick Moody

In this BOMBlive! podcast, recorded at the New School in winter 2001, Rick Moody has an informal conversation with Darcey Steinke in which they discuss writing with feeling, god, and Moody’s book, Demonology.

Rick Moody is an author, musician, and blogger who is best known for his novel The Ice Storm. He is the recipient of PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir for his 2002 Memoir The Black Veil. He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conjunctions, Harper’s, Details, The New York Times, and Grand Street. Most recently, his short story “Some Contemporary Characters” was published via Twitter through a number of literary publications’ Twitter feeds.

Darcey Steinke is a journalist and the author of four novels and a collection of essays, which she co-edited with Rick Moody. blindspot, her web project, was featured in the 2001 Whitney Biennial.