Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006
In the Desert, Prime Time
By John Leonard
The Diviners
by Rick Moody
Little, Brown, 567 pp., $25.95
Yes, I know, before one reviews a new book by Rick Moody, it seems now to be obligatory to cough up a couple of fur-ball paragraphs about the author and his animadverters. This is because, ever since the publication more than three years ago of his rehab/guilt-trip memoir, The Black Veil, 'Rick Moody' has turned into something about which it is necessary to have a position, like sport-utility vehicles, stem cell research, or waterboarding. Permit me to hold these paragraphs in reserve until we have actually read what he's written.
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