This radio programme will be broadcast live from the Subsistances from Monday 25 to Thursday 28 May. Every evening, Kathleen Evin, the show's host, will welcome one author. 

Born in New York in 1962, now living in Brooklyn, Rick Moody is a key author of his generation. The world of literary criticism has acclaimed his novels, such as Purple America , The Ice Storm and The Diviners for their subtle and uncompromising description of a decaying America. In a brilliant and provocative book of memories, The Black Veil: A memoir with digressions, he describes the painful episodes in his life – depression, drug addiction and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. He is also the author of collections of short-stories and of numerous texts published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire and The Paris Review...