Rick Moody is the author of numerous novels, collections of short fiction, two memoirs, and a book of essays.
His debut novel,
Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor’s Choice Award from the Pushcart Press.
The Ice Storm (1994) was published in twenty countries and adapted into a film directed by Ang Lee in 1997.
Other novels include
Hotels of North America;
The Four Fingers of Death;
The Diviners; and
Purple America, for which foreign editions have appeared widely. His most recent memoir is
The Long Accomplishment (2019).
His radio pieces have appeared on The Next Big Thing and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
He is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim fellowship.
He has taught at New York University, Yale University, Princeton University, and Brown University, and he currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Tufts University.
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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.
Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, and much more.
Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.
Narration by Megan Hyde.
Additional editing by Marion Nicvert.
This episode features excerpts from Rick Moody’s text “The Construction of Humanism in Documentary Radio” (2005), as well as his audio pieces "Pirate Radio Station" (2005) and “Annals of Minimalism” (2023).It also features excerpts from "The city wears a slouch hat" by John Cage and Kenneth Patchen, 1942, and “On the Edge” by Joe Frank, 1991.
Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.
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