Rick Moody is the author, most recently, of a collection of essays: On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening (Little, Brown and Company).

• May 2012: Review of by Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife
  Rick Moody on Ryan Boudinot
• July/August 2010: The Gospel of the Drum Machine
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  May 2010: Review of Charlie Smith’s Three Delays
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  June 2009: Analects on the Influence of Artaud
  Must one be willing to become mentally ill in the name of art?
• July/August 2008: Two Weeks at Music Camp
  A writer’s diary of becoming something more than “George Plimpton sitting in with the orchestra and plinking a triangle”
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  July/August 2008: Gentle Giant: The Unfair Reputation of Prog-Rock Concept Albums
• May 2007: A Short Walk Through The Rings of Saturn
  Mapping several routes (with diagrams!) through the maze of W. G. Sebald’s beautiful and nearly indefinable “prose fiction.”
• February 2007: Review of Encyclopedia Volume I, A-E
• June/July 2006: Some Propositions Concerning the Lounge Lizards
  Your memory of the best concert you ever saw in your life is not to be trusted, but that doesn’t make the memory less important.
• June/July 2005: How to Be a Christian Artist
  Dressed as trees and doctors, the Danielson Famile makes evangelical rock music that’s free from preordained Old Testament imagery.
• April 2005: Crimes Against the Reader
  Looking back on the National Book Award and the ire it inspired.
• November 2003: Child: Caitlyn
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  May 2003: Thirty-One Love Songs
  Whittling 69 Love Songs down to a perfect thirty-one—this is how some people spend an afternoon.