Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a volume of essays On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening. He also plays music in The Wingdale Community Singers, whose third album "Night, Sleep, Death" was just released by Blue Chopsticks Recordings.
John Cage and the Question of Genre
By Chris Abrahams, Sherre DeLys & Rick Moody
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage. (more)
Cooler by the Lake
By Rick Moody & Laura Vitale
To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)
The Control of Teenagers
By Rick Moody & Michael Hearst
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing; (more)
In Which the Coffee Mugs Offer Explanation
By Rick Moody & Laura Vitale
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation. (more)
Thrifty Liquidators
By Rick Moody & Michael Hearst
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon... (more)
Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
By Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler & Rick Moody
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America. (more)
They Didn't Get Along
By Michael Hearst & Rick Moody
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator. (more)
Into the Darkness: Presenting the 2004 TCF ShortDocs
By Adam Burke, Jude Fletcher, Hugh Levinson, Rick Moody & Jay Allison
For the 2004 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "darkness." (more)
The Color Is Black
By Rick Moody & Jerome Schmidt
Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world. (more)
