Rick Moody is the author of several critically-acclaimed novels and collections of short fiction, including Garden State, The Diviners, and The Ice Storm, as well as The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions. Moody has earned various literary awards and was presented with a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. He has taught at several educational institutions, including the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Moody's radio collaborations have appeared on Resonance FM, The Next Big Thing, Weekend America, and Re:sound, among other places.
Cooler by the Lake
By Rick Moody & Laura Vitale
To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)
The Control of Teenagers
By Rick Moody & Michael Hearst
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing; (more)
In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation
By Rick Moody & Laura Vitale
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation. (more)
Thrifty Liquidators
By Rick Moody & Michael Hearst
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon... (more)
Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
By Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler & Rick Moody
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America. (more)
They Didn't Get Along
By Michael Hearst & Rick Moody
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator. (more)
Into the Darkness: Presenting the 2004 TCF ShortDocs
By Adam Burke, Jude Fletcher, Hugh Levinson, Rick Moody & Jay Allison
For the 2004 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "darkness." (more)
The Color Is Black
By Rick Moody & Jerome Schmidt
Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world. (more)
