Award-winning author Rick Moody will give a reading on Monday, March 31st, at 4 p.m. in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College with a Q&A to follow. This event will be the final in Bradford Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series at Bard and is free and open to the public.

RICK MOODY is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, and three works of nonfiction, including an essay collection about music. His most recent novel, Hotels of North America (Bay Back) is told through a sequence of online reviews and in 2015 was named a best book of the year by NPR and the Washington Post. Moody has received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is a prolific contributor to Conjunctions, where he has been published twenty-six times.

Praise for Rick Moody

“Moody makes sure we know when the laughs should hurt . . . never puts a foot wrong.” —New York Times

“Rick Moody is one of the most prodigiously talented writers in America.” —Brooke Allen, Wall Street Journal