So I bought the current edition of The Believer just now

[starlady]

despite the fact that it has an article by Rick Moody, at whose byline I laughed out loud, because for me Rick Moody and by extension a good chunk of the bone I pick with contemporary literary fiction is brilliantly encapsulated in Dale Peck's infamously scathing review of Moody's memoir The Black Veil. Or, if you prefer, you can have yuki_onna on the movie version of The Ice Storm (key passage: "Jesus Christ, Rick Moody, cheer the fuck up."), which is also gold.

But really I bought it for cover (which is great) and the mix CD (which is pretty good) anyway.

Comments

[were_duck]

Cool! Let me know how the Nina Simone article is?

[starlady]

Surely!

[djkittycat]

Where is it usually sold?

[starlady]

I found it at Barnes & Noble, which I did not expect but was pleasantly surprised about.

[seekingferret]

I found that Rick Moody review occasionally entertaining but mostly aesthetically incoherent. I left the review entirely unclear what he was offering as an alternative to Rick Moody, entirely unclear what his issue with Don DeLillo is, entirely unclear why he thinks A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ruined literature, entirely unclear what the fuck he was talking about most of the time.

And his apparent conclusion, that what's genuine and authentic in Rick Moody's work is that "Rick Moody is sad," is just completely confusing to me.