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Moody Rick
On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening
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Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial Music," which was included in Best American Essays, 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, "Try a Little Tenderness;" moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, "the music of the spheres." Contemporary groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story "Boys." Always both incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done--and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know.
The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel
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Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.
The Ice Storm: A Novel
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The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven : A Novella and Stories
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On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions.
Demonology: Stories (Back Bay Books (Series))
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In paperback at last: the exuberantly praised collection of short fictionwelcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Reviewthat has firmly established Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation. A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller. All four of Rick Moodys previous books will be simultaneously reissued as Back Bay trade paperbacks with a fresh, uniform look (see page 31). Rick Moodys new hardcover, a memoir entitled The Black Veil, will be published in May 2002 (see page 14)and will no doubt receive major review attention. He has received the Paris Reviews Aga Khan Prize, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Rick Moody is a traditionalist. Despite his page-long paragraphs, brand-name dropping, obsessive cataloguing of workplace ritual, seemingly random italicizing, and inevitable digs at "multinational entertainment providers," Moody makes classically beautiful short stories. His tools are those of any master storyteller: detail, catharsis, the right word at the right moment. Granted, the details can be unexpected: e.g., comparative values of different Pez dispensers. And his brand of catharsis can be mighty abrupt. "Now the intolerable part of this story begins," he warns us in the title story of Demonology, while "Hawaiian Night" includes the ominous spoiler, "Here comes tragedy." Yet his word choice is always immaculate. Moody's collection is framed by two stories in which the narrator ruminates over his dead sister. In the first, "The Mansion on the Hill," he speaks directly to the departed: You were a fine sister, but you changed your mind all the time, and I had no idea if these things I'd attributed to you in the last year were features of the you I once knew, or whether, in death, you had become the property of your mourners, so that we made of you a puppet. The story promptly turns into a revenge fantasy, with an absurd climax wherein the narrator attacks his sister's former fiancé. "Demonology" deals with the actual circumstances of her death. First we see her tucking the kids into bed prior to her fatal seizure: "And my sister kissed her daughter multiply, because my niece is a little impish redhead, and it's hard not to kiss her." Moody then switches tone smoothly and beautifully as the medics work on the dead woman: "Her body jumped while they shocked her--she was a revenant in some corridor of simultaneities--but her heart wouldn't start." A writer who pins down such fluidities can get up to all the experimentation he likes. We'll go along willingly. --Claire Dederer
The Diviners
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During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, an indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of -theory and practice of TV; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of an L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessa+s Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase--inspired by a true story; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script.A few true artists surface in the course of Moody+s rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessa's staff at Means of Production, even herself. THE DIVINERS is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to a still higher level of appreciation.
Moody Rick News
REAs: Rich Enterprise Applications - SYS-CON Media (press release)
SYS-CON Media (press release), NJ - May 22, 9269
REAs: Rich Enterprise ApplicationsThis year, jurors included Paul Giamatti, Rick Moody, Francine Prose and musician and Tony Award-winner Stew. Visit the online press kit for more information about The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
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Cedar Rapids retains top bond rating - Gazette Online
Gazette Online, IA - May 22, 1507
Cedar Rapids retains top bond ratingBy Rick Smith The city of Cedar Rapids has retained its long-held top Aaa bond rating, which signifies fiscal soundness and allows city government to borrow money at lower interest rates. The most recent credit worthiness report from Moody's Investors
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GM skids towards bankruptcy - The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times, Australia - May 22, 3583
ABC NewsGM skids towards bankruptcyOn March 31, a day after President Barack Obama fired GM chief executive officer Rick Wagoner, he gave the company until June 1 to make aggressive cuts. It was the Treasury Department that instructed GM not to offer bondholders any more than 10 per Video: GM Bondholders Back New Offer The new GM _ Government Motors?
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County Board splits township requests for funding pending Ki-Chi ... - Chisago County Press
Chisago County Press, MN - May 22, 8132
County Board splits township requests for funding pending Ki-Chi BY DENISE MARTIN Chisago Lake Township Board asked the Chisago County Board last week to release township park fees in order to add a ballfield at Ki-Chi-Saga Park and to re-build the roof of the house at Moody Round Barn Park.
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Funkhouser-Tran team for SunTrust doubles tennis crown - High Point Enterprise (subscription)
High Point Enterprise (subscription), NC - May 18, 2009
Funkhouser-Tran team for SunTrust doubles tennis crownIn mixed 7.0 semifinals, Melissa Tiedemann-David Capps downed top-seeded Donna Ysidron-James Roach 6-3, 6-3 and second-seeded Kristen Moody-Rick Porch topped third-seeded Ashlee Ramsey-Ryan Gentel 6-1, 6-1. In mixed 8.0 semifinals, second-seeded
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