http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/05/16/rick-moody-interview/ Sinéad Gleeson's blog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:36:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/05/16/rick-moody-interview/#comment-134531 John Self Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:19:14 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/05/16/rick-moody-interview/#comment-134531 I find Moody a 'problem' writer: I want to like his books but often don't. <em>The Diviners</em> seemed exactly the sort of DeLillo-ish modern, media-saturated epic I love, but I couldn't for the life of me finish the damn thing. I think he's right to reject comparisons to Cheever (though I've never seen any), but Updike's not way off the mark: there's a shared desire to throw everything in the mix there, to showboat his language (which is not intended as a criticism: I like a bit of showboating), to - as Bellow said of Amis Jr - "cover the world in language." I find Moody a ‘problem’ writer: I want to like his books but often don’t. The Diviners seemed exactly the sort of DeLillo-ish modern, media-saturated epic I love, but I couldn’t for the life of me finish the damn thing. I think he’s right to reject comparisons to Cheever (though I’ve never seen any), but Updike’s not way off the mark: there’s a shared desire to throw everything in the mix there, to showboat his language (which is not intended as a criticism: I like a bit of showboating), to - as Bellow said of Amis Jr - “cover the world in language.”

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