Rick Moody (Demonology, Ice Storm) has written a very smart memoir---not recently!---that I have been torturing myself with. I only picked it up because the back cover promised stuff about stays in insane asylums. He's so very smart and makes such good observations about peoplw in a Chekhovian way. But I hate the book, and I found someone else who does:
"The Black Veil offers the Jamesian 'figure in the carpet' glimpsed from the verso, all rough weave and stitches. Moody makes almost no mention of the attainments of his life — there is almost nothing about [ ...] the riveting epileptic convulsions of a soul in extremis, a life he views as blackened at its very root by 'brutality, bloodthirstiness, and murder' --- Esquire
and
"Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation." --- The New Republic
Pretty harsh.
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