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Interview: Rick Moody (07/04/2008)
Rick Moody is the author of eight books including The Ice Storm, The Black Veil and most recently, Right Livelihoods, and his fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, and elsewhere. His band, the Wingdale Community Singers, released their first album on Plain Recordings in 2005. Moody’s “Primary Notes 2008: The Republican Diaries,” appearing in issue 9, marks his fourth contribution to Black Clock.
In this interview, conducted via email over the course of our nation’s birthday week, Moody gives some further thoughts on the Republican party, the “Third Way,” embarrassment, and prog rock.
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Anne-Marie Kinney | Barack Obama | Black Clock 9 | Bobby Jindal | Conservative | Election | Embarrassment | Hockey Hair | John McCain | Liberal | Mike Huckabee | Mitt Romney | Prog Rock | Republican Party | Rick Moody | Tim Pawlenty