Rick Moody

Literature precedes genre.

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

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.

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.