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![]() ![]() ![]() Paul's School in New Hampshire, Brown University, received a master's degree in fine art from Columbia University and has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase and Bennington College. He grew up in several of the Connecticut suburbs where he later set stories and novels, including Darien and New Canaan. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Paris Review, Harper's, Details, the New York Times, and Grand Street. ![]() He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His memoir The Black Veil (2002) won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. His first novel Garden State (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. ![]() ![]() ![]() In others, it is still linked with ritual impurity and lunar madness, while in certain hunter-gatherer and mountain communities, it is viewed as a sacred time for female solidarity, associated with healing and psychic powers. Historically, in some cultures, men refused to acknowledge it, in order to maintain a romantic image of women. ![]() Until recently, the topic of menstruation has been universally regarded as taboo, shrouded in secrecy and mythology. Broadly speaking, in mainstream fiction, examples of menstruation are few and far between. In the early 1960s, it was unusual and brave for a work of fiction to mention menstruation, let alone explore it in such detail. “A period is something I deal with, without thinking about it particularly, or rather I think of it with a part of my mind that deals with routine problems. It is the same part of my mind that deals with the problem of routine cleanliness.” In Doris Lessing’s 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, the protagonist, Anna, worries about her period and how it will affect the integrity of her writing. ![]() |