Set in a small, mythical Indiana town in the 1930s, this modern-day parable tells the story of a mentally challenged boy who’s early childhood trauma left him with an extreme fear of water and a gift: ...

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Almost nobody follows literary feuds these days, but those who do still remember Dale Peck’s declaration three years ago in the “New Republic” that Rick Moody “is the worst writer of his generation.” ...

Set in rural Indiana in the early 1930s, Jim Leonard Jr.’s 1980 play, “The Diviners,” drips with a period regionalism that is almost folkloric in tone. The play requires careful handling, or its ...

Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, has just published his first novel in seven years. The Diviners satirizes the entertainment industry, circa 2000. Moody tells Linda Wertheimer the book should be ...

L AFAYETTE — Playwright Jim Leonard’s 1980 work “The Diviners” is a beautifully rendered story. It’s also a deceptively difficult play to produce. The Theater Company of Lafayette’s staging of the ...

From the beginning of "The Diviners," when Zion, Ind., farmer Basil Bennett (Mike Culbertson) announces, "The idiot boy is dead," we know something bad is going to happen in the next two hours. "The ...

An epic novel with scads of characters has to be a daunting prospect for any audiobook narrator. The gold standard in pulling it off is Roy Dotrice, whose performances of four titles in George R.R.

The mournful strains of that heartland hymn “Amazing Grace” sound over the drab-colored set as “The Diviners” opens. The somber music sets the tone. For this is a land of mourning, a place where ...

THE DIVINERS. By Rick Moody. Little, Brown, 567 pp. $25.95. The joke of the fake film treatment is that it generates enough buzz that a Cecil B. DeMille-size cast searches for the nonexistent writer, ...