Rick Moody | The New York Review of Books

Rick Moody

Rick Moody, a novelist and short story writer, is the author of the novels The Ice Storm (1994), Purple America (1997), and Hotels of North America (2015), among others, and the short story collections Demonology (2001) and Right Livelihoods (2007), and a memoir, The Black Veil (2002). (January 2020)

‘Three Christs,’ Schizophrenia & Us

Avnet’s film, for all its blustering about the institutional period of mental health treatment, is on its firmest footing when in its depiction it strives for accuracy about the ache and woe of mental illness, when it says what is true: that they are us.

January 12, 2020