Rick Moody and Heather McGowan
Rick Moody is the author of the novels Garden State, Purple America, and The Ice Storm, the story collections Demonology and The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven. In a starred review, Booklist hailed his most recent work, The Diviners as, "[a] dizzying, exhilarating comic narrative... Moody has an uncanny ability to mimic almost any form of language...in the most hilarious fashion. Usually the purveyor of much darker fare, he seems to be having a blast with this wild and wooly take on our media-saturated culture."
Heather McGowan's novel Schooling has been hailed a Best Book of the Year for 2001 by Newsweek, The Hartford Courant and The Detroit Free Press and has been described by The New York Times as "Mesmerizing.... Does a dazzling job of conveying the hormonal impatience and doomy romanticism of adolescence." She was named one of the Village Voice's Writers on the Verge. Her work has been anthologized in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997 and in Soft Skull's Juncture. Her screenwriting work includes the original script Tadpole, which starred Sigourney Weaver. Her novel Duchess of Nothing is forthcoming from Bloomsbury U.S. in spring 2006.
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