By Rick Moody. And that's as it should be. Moody has spirit and drive and talent to burn, and so he burns a little, as is his privilege. A gusher that doesn't spray and spill some oil isn't a gusher, it's just another well. More often, though, they excite and enthrall.
Every good laboratory has some broken test tubes, and every hit has a flip side.
Enjoy the hits. Flirting With Disaster My profile of Rick Moody, which appears in the Book Review, is based on the interview. By Michael Tomasky. The Free Press. But for the most part, that is about as far as it goes.