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...