Moody's first foray into nonfiction is a curious amalgam of family history, literary criticism and recovery memoir. The title refers to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," which ...

Even before Mark Gottfried's team reached the men's Elite Eight in 2004, coach Rick Moody's 1993-94 women's team did it 20 years earlier, and wasn't done. Neisa Johnson, Yolanda Watkins ...

Rick Moody is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, two memoirs, and a volume of essays on music. Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of ...