Tag Archives: Rick Moody

WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS DEFIANT

June 7, 2010 – 4:22 pm

Waters and Egan and Kramer (oh my) make this week a busy one. Lydia Davis and David Means grace us on Tuesday, and you’ll want to save your Saturday for Elliott Sharp, and bring your invisible dog. Just don’t forget who told you. More…

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Dreaming Life: Keith Lee Morris

March 29, 2010 – 2:16 pm

With wit and heart, Keith Lee Morris’s stories explore the slippery nature of memory, its mutability and incompleteness. His characters are forever filling in the blanks, and where others might have to earn our empathy, they have it straightaway.

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Wingdale Community Singers, “Willing Sense of Disbelief”

January 6, 2010 – 5:19 pm

wingdale VIDEO! The moniker Wingdale Community Singers provides some cover of anonymity over its members who, like members of a small-town church choir, came together for the simple purpose of singing out loud. Composers David Grubbs and Hannah Marcus, writer Rick Moody and artist Nina Katchourian, along with bassist Elissa Moser Linowes, are all highly acclaimed in their respective fields. BOMBsessions caught up with the group at Marcus’ Brooklyn apartment on a windy Fall night. With Mr. Grubbs regrettably busy teaching at Brooklyn College, the remaining members of the band performed the song “Willing Sense of Disbelief.”

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Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters,” Day 3

December 2, 2009 – 2:12 pm

Rick Moody. Photo by Meredith Moody Saxon ©1994. (From BOMB 48, Summer 1994.)
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re co-publishing Rick Moody’s short story, “Some Contemporary Characters,” on Twitter, which has generated an enormous amount of buzz, both positive and negative. The whole project is an experiment set up by Electric Literature. We’re curious to know your thoughts on the Twitter-exclusive story: feel free to leave them in the comments section.

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