Tom MoodyTom Moody

Tom Moody is an Auckland writer and academic, and serves as head of the US fiction bureau at The Spinoff. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1953.

DeLillo Week: A week-long series on maybe the world’s greatest living writer

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The world is a fucked-up place with terrorists controlling the narrative (and the images), and distracted, anxious, over-fed America slouching towards a Trump apocalypse. Don DeLillo anticipated the way things have turned out; to mark the publication of his latest book, the Spinoff Review of Books devotes the entire week to the work of maybe the world’s … Read more

Books: Why One of the Other Novels Shortlisted for the Man Booker Should Have Won

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Satin Island by Tom McCarthy The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Satin Island – Tom McCarthy’s second novel shortlisted for the Man Booker award – is the story of U (that’s all we ever know of his name) and his work, as an anthropologist/corporate ethnographer, at the Company (that’s all we ever know of its name). … Read more