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Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, two memoirs, and a volume of essays on music.

Chloe Shaw, author of "What Is A Dog?" and author Rick Moody (Photo illustration by Salon/Flat Iron Books/Rachel Liu)

Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, “What Is a Dog?”: “I wrote from a place of specified grief”

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David Bowie in New York, May 1978. (AP/Brian Killigrew)

Let’s debate: A David Bowie critic and an obsessive battle over maddening brilliance of “Lodger”

Rick Moody, Simon Critchley

Bob Mould (Jay Blakesberg)

Bob Mould: “Father Time’s trying to get in the band and I’m trying to keep him out of the band”

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Jill Sobule (jillsobule.com)

Jill Sobule: “There was a time I had this gig opening up for Don Henley”

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Ian McLagan (T. DiMenno)

Ian McLagan on Green Day: “If I had a gun, they’d all be dead”

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Rick Moody (Hachette Book Group)

“I almost always feel like a failure as a father”

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John Cage (AP/Bob Child)

David Grubbs: “The laptop has to be invited to connect with the stereo. It definitely doesn’t get to leave its toothbrush at the stereo’s place”

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Daft Punk (AP/Matt Sayles)

“Get Lucky”: Rick Moody and Dean Wareham debate Daft Punk, disco and whether pleasures should be guilty

Rick Moody, Dean Wareham

St. Vincent

St. Vincent: “I have this sound in my head. How do I get it here in my fingers?”

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Linda Thompson (Annabel Vere)

Linda Thompson: Good art can’t be depressing!

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Mark Mulcahy (Facebook)

Mark Mulcahy has made the best album you’ll hear this year

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(AP/Evan Agostini)

I dared criticize Taylor Swift

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“Building Stories”: Sui generis masterpiece

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-67581p1.html'>Johnathan M. Thomas</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Trust me on this: The Beatles’ “Let It Be”

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Writing in the dark

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Sex, capitalism and antidepressants

Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody

Incognito

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