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Rick Moody

Rick Moody

American Novelist

Born: Oct 18, 1961

About Because Genre Life Me Sometimes

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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. Rick Moody

Faith Say Blasphemy Highest Suppose Order Should Treasure

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. Rick Moody

Book Writing Concealing Revealing Itself Process

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. Rick Moody

Finally Kid Married Get Get Married Going Maybe Turned Forty

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. Rick Moody

Style Contention Stylized Just

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

Good You Sometimes Example Control Hell Too Out Kind Boring Stein Prose Know Stylized Gets Going Then Hell Is Good Example

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. Rick Moody

Time Me Try Made Stuff List

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. Rick Moody

Down Way Defy Whenever Break Worked Really Hard

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. Rick Moody

World Ghetto Out Having More Writer True Also Am However Intent Nationalist Regional Moving Moving Out Conquered Conquering Now

I love comic books and always did as a kid. Rick Moody

Love Books Kid Always Comic Comic Books Did

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

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