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Rick Moody

Rick Moody is a novelist and essayist who lives in New York. He received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for his memoir The Black Veil (2002), a Addison Metcalf Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Among his novels are Garden State (Pushcart Press, 1992), The Ice Storm (1994), and Purple America (1997).

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Revolution in the head

Can the writer’s imagination dissolve the lies of power? In the tenth of our Letters to Americans series, the exiled Chinese poet Yang Lian writes to Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm.