Fiction writer Rick Moody reads from his work Mar. 31

Date: Mar. 31, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room

Rick Moody, a fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, radio commentator and recording artist, will present a reading on Monday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m. in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room.

Moody's first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor's Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. It was followed by The Ice Storm in 1994, which in turn appeared in foreign additions in twenty countries and in a film version, directed by Ang Lee, in 1997. His newest novel is entitled The Diviners. Right Livelihoods, a novella, was published in 2007. A collection of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, was also published in 1995. The title story was the winner of the 1994 Aga Khan Award from The Paris Review. 

In 2001, he published a collection of short fiction, Demonology, also published in Spain, France, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In 2002, Little, Brown & Co issued The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions, which was a winner of the PEN Martha Albrand prize for excellence in the memoir category. His short fiction and journalism have been anthologized in Best American Stories 2001, Best American Essays 2004, Year's Best Science Fiction #9, and in the Pushcart Prize anthology. His radio pieces have appeared on "The Next Big Thing" and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. His album "Rick Moody and One Ring Zero" was released in 2004. Moody has taught at SUNY Purchase, the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the New School for Social Research.

Posted March 26, 2008