As 2013 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
Writer, singer, composer and poet Rick Moody first gained widespread acclaim with his 1994 novel, The Ice Storm, a portrait of dysfunctional suburban life that plays out over the course of a long Thanksgiving weekend. In 1999, The New Yorker named Moody one of America’s most talented new writers, with a voice that constantly pushes the stylistic boundaries of modern literature. He has published five novels, three collections of short fiction and two nonfiction works. He also performs with the Wingdale Community Singers, an acoustic band that blends the sounds of old-time folk, gospel and bluegrass, with hints of rock and baroque chamber music to augment their arch, literary lyrics. Their most recent album is Night, Sleep, Death, released only on LP by Drag City. Moody will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Moody: It’s summer at the Guggenheim, and the tourists dart in and out on their way to and from the Met, just down Fifth, and they are all on their smartphones, texting and squealing in German and French and Italian and Japanese, and one wonders what they make of the Turrell retrospective, especially the peristaltic rings of sunset that he has rigged up in the atrium, pulsing from light to dark like a simulated eclipse. Turrell has figured out a way to describe light itself.
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