Between Panic and Desire
Dinty W. Moore’s memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska) was winner of the 2009 Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize and is now available in a nifty paperback edition.
His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction.
Moore has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, among numerous other venues.
He has won numerous awards for his writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction.
Donna Seaman at Booklist says of the newest book:
“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.”
About Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore lives in Athens, Ohio, where he teaches a crop of brilliant undergraduate and stunningly talented graduate students, and directs Ohio University's BA, MA, and PhD in Creative Writing program.
He enjoys living amdist the funkadelicious, hillbilly-hippie center of the locally-grown, locally-consumed, slow-food, goats-are-for-cheese,
paw-paws-are-for-eatin', artisanal-salsa, our-farmers-market-rocks-the-hills Appalachian Athens sub-culture.
When not chained to his keyboard, Dinty enjoys yoga, kayaking, biking, and taking pictures.