An Unconventional Novel and Protagonist Put Hotels of North America on Notice

Show #111, Hour 2 | Guest: Rick Moody is a contemporary renaissance man. His novels include Garden State, The Ice Storm (adapted for film, directed by Ang Lee), Purple America, The Diviners, The Four Fingers of Death, and his latest, Hotels of North America. Moody’s radio pieces have appeared on The Next Big Thing, Re:Sound, Weekend America, Morning Edition, and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. His album Rick Moody and One Ring Zero was released in 2004, and The Wingdale Community Singers, in which he plays and write lyrics, have released two albums. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. | Show Summary: Journalist, musician, self-proclaimed Life Coach, and novelist Rick Moody explores today’s ‘reviewer’ culture with a quirky, unreliable protagonist in latest novel, Hotels of North America.