Rick Moody reads “The Egg”
From The Triumph of the Egg (1921)
“One unversed in such matters can have no notion of the many and tragic things that can happen to a chicken. . . . One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.”
Commentary by Rick Moody on “The Egg”:
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Rick Moody is the author of five novels, including The Ice Storm and most recently The Four Fingers of Death and three collections of short fiction. His memoir The Black Veil won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.. A resident of Brooklyn, he currently teaches at New York University.
