New Releases by Rick Moody

Se la vita che fai non è quella che sognavi, scappa. L’East Village, il quartiere più bello e dannato di New York, rivive attraverso le vicende di Jorge, Toni e Randy, che a turno dipingono una realtà torbida, promiscua, fuori dal tempo, fatta di locali sadomaso, crack, prostituzione, i cui protagonisti sono persone qualunque cui il caso ha deciso di far toccare i punti estremi dell’esistenza. Un perito assicurativo dalla psiche instabile affronta la sua vita coniugale passando in rassegna le telefonate registrate all’insaputa della moglie; la delirante confessione di una brutta delusione amorosa viene trasposta in un lavoro accademico sull’Apocalisse; James Dean sopravvive all’incidente d’auto per mettere in piedi una improbabile band rock in un paesino sperduto della California. Rick Moody, uno dei più grandi scrittori americani della sua generazione, racconta traiettorie umane fatte di amori infelici, eccessi, fanatismo e perdizione in un libro che è un’intensa poetica delle occasioni perdute, in cui le vite eccezionali che incontriamo sono solo apparentemente molto lontane dalle nostre. “La più lucente corona d’angeli in cielo sembra quasi scritto in trance. Uno di quei felici apici che è possibile raggiungere una volta o due in tutta la vita, se si è fortunati. Ma molto fortunati.” Tommaso Pincio

Meredith Monk works seamlessly across disciplines, pushing the boundaries of music, theater, dance, video, and installation, and is considered a pioneer of site-specific performance. This catalogue presents the first career encompassing, in-depth analysis of her work. Featuring never-before-published archival material, musical notations, drawings, and photographs, as well as an insightful conversation with the artist

Fuentes Winner Luisa Valenzuela nails mother-daughter dynamic. Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin reveals benefits of preaching to the choir. Mahmoud Darwish explores states of siege. Julie Busic reminds us wars reverberate long after the shooting''s stopped. New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler visits Occupy Wall St. & survives the day. Portland chronicler Jennifer Robin travels Portland''s neofeudal Public Transport, & survives the night. Melanie Alldritt looks at looking at looking at that girl''s hair in an infinite loop. Portland tr. OR. Book Award Finalist Matthew Robinson writes a timelapse Western history. From further afield we''ve cartoons from director & illustrator Liz Swados, & Lithuanian Holocaust scholar Migle Anusauskaite; Cristina Álvarez Lopez runs with Keith Jarrett; Croatian writer Josip Razum shows a man, his wife, his family & a painting; Danish Birgit Munch describes peculiar disownments; Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tr. by Marilyn Hacker, reveals a secret prehistory of words. Oz poet Les Murray offers precise perceptions & Swiss author Christoph Keller recalls Murray''s kindness; Croatian Armin Harambasic shows all of life, waiting at a train station. Lidia Yuknavitch hatches an escape from Group, Susan Daitch guards the night, Rick Moody names all things legends omit. Mo Daviau nails Norman Mailer; Oscar winner Frederic Raphael nails a tale told by Petronius. Croatian graphic artist Mirolsav Nemeth takes a gleeful graphic journey to Rome. Japanese artist Midori Oki''s art installation dives beneath the skin; Croatian Monica Herceg & Estonian Triin Paja relate souls to forests; Lance Olsen shows a digressive street encounter between Bowie & a neighborhood character; Croatian essayist Dubravka Oraic Tolic shows how the world changed even before Baader Meinhof. PNW writers Poe Ballantine & Kurt Eisenlohr go their sardonic ways while Mark Sargent describes being anywhere with Gregory Corso. Poets near & far: Coleman Stevenson, Leanne Grabel, Armin Tolentino, Brenda Taulbee, David Biespiel; Greek poets Dinos Siotis, Thanos Gogos, Phoebe Giannisi, Petros Skythiotis, poets fr. other climes, Robert Walser, Miroslav Kirin, Tomica Bajsic, Nina Wieda, Andrei Sen-Senkov, & Marge Piercy. Prose fr. Peter Fogtdal, & graphics fr. Tania Cardoso (Rio/Rotterdam) complete Gobshite 2023.

“[A] moving, funny, hauntingly brilliant memoir about marriage.” —Caroline Leavitt, The San Francisco Chronicle Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful, month-by-month account At this story’s start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is, fully and for the first time in his life, “Yes.” And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, "this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, and the reader is buoyed along with them.

“ Hex Raitliffe. Se costui è un eroe, allora gli eroi sono a bizzeffe, e il mondo ne è pieno come lo è di cani randagi, gomme lisce e chiavi smarrite.” Salutato all’unanimità dalla critica americana come un vero capolavoro, Rosso americano racconta due giorni della vita di Hex Raitliffe, costretto a ritornare nella cittadina dove è nato e cresciuto per prendersi cura della madre ammalata. Mentre, intorno a lui, i frammenti scomposti di un passato dimenticato si intrecciano con le conseguenze di un incidente in una centrale nucleare, il precipitare delle condizioni della madre costringe Hex a prendere una decisione straziante, la più difficile e impegnativa della sua vita. Rick Moody è capace di costruire storie ricche e coinvolgenti, di concepire pagine di rarissima intensità poetica e di toccare le questioni fondamentali dell’esistenza di ognuno: la difficoltà della crescita, l’amore per i genitori, la fatica dell’assumersi responsabilità, le complicazioni del vivere.

Bello e dannato come gli eroi dei suoi romanzi, Rick Moody racconta in questa autobiografia la caduta nell’abisso delle droghe e dell’alcool, gli anni più difficili della sua vita e la storia di una famiglia che affonda le proprie radici nella nascita degli Stati Uniti d’America. Lo scrittore newyorkese intreccia i ricordi della propria vita alla ricostruzione del passato familiare, a cominciare dal suo antenato che, per aver provocato involontariamente la morte di un amico, passò il resto della vita con il volto coperto da un velo. “ Moody depista il lettore, schiva le spiegazioni più immediate, riducendole a disordine e ambiguità.” Alex Clark, The Guardian “ Il velo nero è uno straordinario libro sulla natura umana, vista attraverso la lente deformante di una condizione che ha la forza di piegarla e negarla: la malinconia.” Edoardo Nesi

This story collection spans three decades'' worth of writing by a writer perplexed by her own sexuality, gender, and identity.

The national bestseller and basis for the Ang Lee film is a “powerful” novel of two troubled families during a blizzard in 1970s suburban Connecticut (Newsday). A potentially devastating blizzard approaches New Canaan, Connecticut, while internal forces of desire, frustration, and ennui threaten to tear apart two quintessentially affluent, suburban families. Elena Hood rightfully suspects her husband, Benjamin, is having an affair with neighbor Janey Williams, while Benjamin resents Elena and his mounting feelings of ineptitude. As the snow begins to fall, Benjamin and Elena, as well as Janey and her husband, attend a neighborhood “key party,” where they and other respectable suburbanites agree to go home with whomever’s keys they draw from a bowl. Meanwhile, the Hoods’ and Williams’s teenage children are caught up in their own experimentations with sex and drugs as they test the boundaries of their structured upbringing. With author Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the nuances of suburban life and allusions to 1970s America from Watergate to the Fantastic Four, the novel’s landscape is vivid and immersive. This timeless, unforgettable novel is a compassionate portrayal of flawed characters and reflects Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the contradictions of suburban life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

A son is tasked with an impossible decision in this poignant, astutely observed portrait of a family in crisis from the author of The Ice Storm While visiting his mother, Billie, who suffers from a degenerative neurological disease that has left her paralyzed and unable to speak, Dexter “Hex” Raitliffe learns that his stepfather, Billie’s husband and caretaker, has left her. Alone and incapable of living on her own, Billie makes an unfathomable request of Hex: to assist her in committing suicide. Perpetually indecisive, paralyzed by self-doubt, and hindered by an unshakable stutter, Hex sets out to confront his stepfather, only to find himself facing off against his own struggles—with intimacy and alcoholism—along the way. Back in the suburbs of his youth, Hex experiences the lull of nostalgia as well as the sting of painful memories like his father’s death as he tries to reconcile his mother’s fate and his own wavering identity. Author Rick Moody evokes this singular setting with stunning clarity. Profoundly tragic yet punctuated by moments of hilarity, Purple America is a searing gaze into one family’s fragile, chaotic heart. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

A raw, unflinching, convention-defying memoir of substance abuse, depression, and guilt In his genre-bending memoir, Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, delves into not only his own tormenting struggle with depression and alcoholism but also the pathos inherent in American society. Beginning with his childhood and widening his gaze to his ancestral past, Moody elegantly details the events that led him to admit himself to a psychiatric hospital. Seeking explanations for his inner demons, Moody traces his lineage back to Joseph “Handkerchief” Moody. In early-eighteenth-century Maine, Joseph accidentally killed his childhood friend and wore a handkerchief over his face for the rest of his life as a self-imposed punishment. His story stirs within Moody a drive to understand his own failings through a study of American violence from colonial times to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. Remarkably broad in scope and full of Moody’s witticisms and brilliantly crafted prose, The Black Veil is an extraordinary exploration of both personal and cultural shame that transcends the expectations of a memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

A spirited collection of stories revealing the extremes of the human experience from the author of The Ice Storm In his first story collection, Rick Moody provides readers with a poignant, brazenly honest glimpse into the lives of a wide array of characters, from a paranoid husband obsessively listening in on his wife’s phone calls to the junkies and sex addicts of New York City’s underworld. Whether they’re grasping for connection or struggling to survive in a dismal and indifferent environment, these individuals’ haunting voices and the evocative worlds they inhabit make for a diverse and powerful volume. Experimenting with form—one story is told as a term paper, another as an annotated bibliography—Moody demonstrates the vast range of his fascinations and talents, as well as his arresting command of language. Candid depictions of contemporary society and the inner-workings of distinctive characters’ minds bring these inquisitive, heartrending, and at times undeniably funny accounts to life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online reviews. Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe -- they tell his life story. The puzzle of Reginald''s life comes together through reviews that comment upon his motivational speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his beloved daughter, and his devotion to an amour known only as "K." But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life -- or at least the life he has carefully constructed -- which writer Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America demonstrates Moody''s masterly ability to push the bounds of the novel.

"Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers...." (The Washington Post), Eckleburg is a collection of stories, poetry, translations, and artwork by award-winning and emerging talents such as Rick Moody, Stephen Dixon, Cris Mazza, and Eckleburg''s 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winner, Jill Birdsall. Eckleburg No. 18 is a textual and graphic innovation for both the traditionalists and nonconformists.

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.

On New Years Day of 2010, the American video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) began a year-long performance in which she cried once every day. She documented these crying sessions in 365 photographs that record a ritualized intent to "deliberately take part in sadness each day." Drawing out the biological symptoms of human vulnerability with extraordinary persistence, with this project Nakadate updated the endurance strategies of 1970s conceptual and performance art (Marina Abramovic, Bas Jan Ader) for a new generation with a new relationship to the camera lens. As with the work of her predecessors, Nakadate''s self-portraits of willed sadness arouse a range of conflicting emotions in the viewer, from embarrassment to compassion. 365 Days, A Catalogue of Tears reproduces the full set of photographs and examines their negotiation of intimacy, self-reflection, portraiture and the artist''s relationship with her audience.

In our third anthology, Aimee Bender introduces us to a young woman unable to summon the desire to sleep with her husband without payment in cash, Matt Sumell''s protagonist feels capable of anything but can save no one, Rick Moody charts the rise an fall of a romance via Twitter, Patrick deWitt presents a bleak, funny tale of two movers who are going nowhere, and Jenny Offill chronicles the awkward vigil of a man caring for his terminally ill ex-wife.

Rick Moody''s novels have earned him a reputation as a "breathtaking" writer (The New York Times) and "a writer of immense gifts" (The San Francisco Examiner). His remarkable short stories have led both the New Yorker and Harpers to single him out as one of the most original and admired voices in a generation. These stories are abundant proof of Rick Moody''s grace as a stylist and a shaper of interior lives. He writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth ("Boys") and the rueful onset of middle age ("Hawaiian Night"), about Midwestern optimists ("Double Zero") and West coast strategists ("Baggage Carousel"), about visionary exhilaration ("Forecast from the Retail Desk") and delusional catharsis ("Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13.") The astounding title story, which has already been reprinted in four different anthologies, is a masterpiece of remembrance and thwarted love. Full of deep feeling and stunningly beautiful language, the stories in Demonology offer the deepest pleasures that fiction can afford.

Rick Moody offers a brilliant trio of stories, spanning glittering golf courses, a stifling office and a harrowing dystopia. "The Albertine Notes" presents a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the levelling of fifty square blocks of Manhattan by a suitcase bomb. Albertine, the ''street name for the buzz of a lifetime'', is a mind-altering drug through which survivors seek solace in the past. K and K concerns lonely young Ellie Knight-Cam- eron, office manager at an insurance agency, where the office suggestion box is yielding unpleasant messages that escalate to a scary pitch. And at the centre of The Omega Force is a buffoonish former government official in rocky recovery. Dr ''Jamie'' Van Deusen is determined to protect his habitat - its golf courses (and Bloody Marys) and pizza places (and beers) from ''dark-complected'' foreign nationals.

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.

Right Livelihoods begins with a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the leveling of 50 square blocks of Manhattan. Four million have died. Albertine, the "street name for the buzz of a lifetime," is a mind-altering drug that sets The Albertine Notes in motion. The collection''s second novella, K & K, concerns a lonely young office manager at an insurance agency, where the office suggestion box is yielding unpleasant messages that escalate to a scary pitch. Ellie Knight-Cameron''s responses to these random diatribes illuminate the toll that a lack of self-awareness can take. At the center of The Omega Force is a buffoonish former government official in rocky recovery. Dr. "Jamie" Van Deusen is determined to protect his habitat -- its golf courses (and Bloody Marys), pizza places (and beers) from "dark-complected" foreign nationals. His patriotism and wild imagination are mainly fueled by a fall off the wagon. Only Rick Moody could lead us to feel affection for this man and the other misguided, earnestly striving characters in these alternately unsettling, warm, trio of stories.

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