American novelist and short-story writer Rick Moody was this fall’s Bingham Visiting Reader. Best known for his highly acclaimed novels, The Ice Storm and Garden State, Mr. Moody read to students his short story “Boys,” from his 2001 collection, Demonology, and answered questions about his approach to the writing process.
“Boys enter the house. Boys enter the house. Boys, and with them the ideas of boys (ideas leaden, reductive, inflexible) enter the house.”
—opening line from Rick Moody’s “Boys”