A Quirky, Entertaining Joyride ...

Between Panic and Desire

Happy to share some new reviews:

“Moore forges a brisk, incisive, funny, sometimes silly, yet stealthily affecting memoir in essays and skits, a ‘generational autobiography,’ and good candid guy stuff. . . . Each anecdote, piece of pop-culture trivia, and frankly confessed panic and desire yields a chunk of irony and a sliver of wisdom.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“The writing is frequently very funny; insightful, too, especially Moore’s belief that humans are generally delusional when it comes to their expectations vs. what is realistically possible. . . . The narrative has its poignant moments, particularly in Moore’s recollections of his father. And despite his fractured take on the world, his message is essentially hopeful. Moore, it seems, is moving on.”—Robert Kelly, Library Journal

“Between Panic and Desire is more autopsy than memoir—a strange new hybrid. It's a fantasy of letting go of the things that have haunted Moore his entire life." -- The Los Angeles Times

"[A] quirky, entertaining joyride.”—Publishers Weekly

WW Norton's Best Creative Nonfiction

This past year (and for the foreseeable future), it is my privilege to serve as a coordinating editor on the new annual anthology Best Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2007), available at your favorite bookstore.

From Publisher's Weekly:

"... the pieces speak for themselves, blending precise research and astute observation with flavorful, fascinating narratives. Most pieces are first-person, memoir-style accounts -- writers include a former stripper, a fatally ill man, a narcoleptic and a prosopagnosic (a woman who can't recognize faces) -- but a smattering of profiles include an insightful Poets & Writers piece by Daniel Nester on notoriously over-creative nonfiction writer James Frey. Happily, Gutkind reaches several steps beyond the literary journal scene-blog excerpts turn up, and a piece on the secret language of hackers (or "h4ck3rs") comes from John McPhee's Princeton University creative nonfiction class-to find a wide range of topics and styles; though some selections are stronger than others, the richness of the "real" makes the anthology work as a cohesive whole. "

Literary Magazines Won't Hurt You

If you enjoy reading literary magazines (and you really should, you know), look for my latest work in recent issues of:

The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Pinch, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction.

Or, if you'd rather hear me, grumbly voice and all, I'm now a Podcast. So listen up!