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Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer whose work includes Miracle Boy, Buying the Ostrich Farm, The Lights That Dim, and The King of Everything. He is a former contributor for Return Magazine, The Bel Esprit Project, and Brick Moon Fiction, and his stories have appeared in various publications, most notably The NoSleep Podcast and The Saturday Evening Post. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Average rating: 4.45 · 182 ratings · 82 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Crooked Smile by Jack Moody (Goodreads Author), Cody Sexton (Illustrator), Paige Johnson (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monotony of Everlasting 4.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracle Boy 4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King of Everything 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing to Broken Records 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lights That Dim 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buying The Ostrich Farm 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of Apothetae it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Absence of Death (Jack Moody Books) by Jack Moody (Goodreads Author), Cassie Steele (editor), Monica Drake (Goodreads Author) (foreword) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paramnesiac: or The Inheritance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bear with me here, but what I love most about McClanahan’s work is that I’d consider him an accidental forerunner of a particular school of neo-literary fiction that I’ll call “post-irony autofiction”, which I identify by its minimalist, almost child ...more
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Jack Moody rated a book it was amazing The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Haunting and beautiful. What is at first an unassuming novel slowly and deftly hints at its underlying intentions the further on you read, until by its conclusion you finally understand the true purpose and message of The Buried Giant. Its ending pro ...more
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Haunting and beautiful. What is at first an unassuming novel slowly and deftly hints at its underlying intentions the further on you read, until by its conclusion you finally understand the true purpose and message of The Buried Giant. Its ending pro ...more
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Jack Moody and 7 other people liked Kevin's review of Fights!: "A wonderful work of novel as true story or real life told as gripping fiction. Even as someone who doesn't like fighting or people always arguing, I still loved it. Ha! Scott is one of my all-time favorite small press authors and this is a fascinatin" Read more of this review »
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