The Grub

panicI've recently learned that my memoir Between Panic and Desire (University of Nebraska Press) has won the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize in Non-Fiction. As part of the award, I will visit Boston in spring of 2009 as a guest author at Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace literary conference and lead a craft class exclusively for members.

The Grub Street Book Prize is awarded three times annually to a writer outside New England publishing his or her second, third, fourth (or beyond...) book. The April reading and party are co-sponsored by a local independent bookstore, which will sell books at the event.

See you in Beantown!

And So It Goes

Well, for those of you who haven't been following along this past year, I'm now teaching in the Creative Writing PhD program at Ohio University, in funkadelicious Athens, the undisputed metaphysical center of the locally-grown, locally-consumed seasonal burrito sub-culture.

I had the extreme good fortune to teach this past summer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and hope to do so again. Check out the UNO Mexico Summer program.

My work is forthcoming in The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and Fourth Genre, and recent work in Gulf Coast, Iron Horse, and Chautauqua. I continue to serve as contributing editor to W.W. Norton's The Best Creative Nonfiction series (Volume Two just released.)

A Quirky, Entertaining Joyride ...

Some reviews:

“Moore forges a brisk, incisive, funny, sometimes silly, yet stealthily affecting memoir in essays and skits, a ‘generational autobiography,’ and good candid guy stuff. . . . Each anecdote, piece of pop-culture trivia, and frankly confessed panic and desire yields a chunk of irony and a sliver of wisdom.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“The writing is frequently very funny; insightful, too, especially Moore’s belief that humans are generally delusional when it comes to their expectations vs. what is realistically possible. . . . ”—Robert Kelly, Library Journal

Between Panic and Desire is more autopsy than memoir—a strange new hybrid. It's a fantasy of letting go of the things that have haunted Moore his entire life." -- The Los Angeles Times

"[A] quirky, entertaining joyride.”—Publishers Weekly

New Edition of Toothpick Men

Mammoth Press has released a new edition of Toothpick Men, including two new stories and many fine new words not found in the first edition. (Words like "flabbergasted" and "ramification.") We are also quite pleased with the new cover.

We are working to make the new/revised edition available through Amazon and other fine booksellers, but the Mammoth moves at a glacial pace. In the meantime your best bet is to order directly from the author.

I'll sign them too.