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Dale Peck

Dale Peck

Dale Peck

Dale Peck was born on Long Island and is the author of several novels, including Martin and John, a collection of short stories, and a family memoir. His short fiction has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Village Voice. He also teaches creative writing and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995. He lives in New York.

Body Surfing will be released on February 09, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Feb 09, 2010
Body Surfing is now available in Trade Paperback
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Body Surfing is now available in Hardcover
Feb 17, 2009
Body Surfing will be released on February 17, 2009 in eBook
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Body Surfing is now available in eBook
Feb 17, 2009
Body Surfing is now available in eBook
Feb 01, 2009
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Body Surfing will be released on February 17, 2009 in Hardcover
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Io9, January 6, 2012
...foremost as a novel. My prediction: It could be as big as Tim Kring's epic collaboration with Dale Peck. [EW]...
Guardian.co.uk, November 19, 2011
...broke out on the slopes of Parnassus. In May, Theroux shook hands with Naipaul. In America, the critic Dale Peck made up with his long-term foe, "the worst writer of his generation", novelist Rick Moody. So, thank God for Prof Ferguson's thin skin. The...
Guardian.co.uk, August 8, 2011
...cracking run-down of the most bellicose author-on-author reviews ( Alice Hoffman vs Richard Ford , James Wood vs Zadie Smith , Dale Peck calling Rick Moody "the worst writer of his generation" - although, inexplicably, they omit what is surely the...
Salon, August 7, 2011
...her after she turned thumbs-down on "The Sportswriter" in the Times. They linger in the critical memory, like Dale Peck's infamous charge in the New Republic that Rick Moody was, and we quote, "the worst writer of his generation." That review was crucial...
Salon, July 24, 2011
...her after she turned thumbs-down on "The Sportswriter" in the Times. They linger in the critical memory, like Dale Peck's infamous charge in the New Republic that Rick Moody was, and we quote, "the worst writer of his generation." That review was crucial...
Huffington Post, June 13, 2011
...that Paul Theroux has shaken hands with V.S. Naipaul, Rick Moody has thrown a friendly pie at Dale Peck and Twitter has supplanted the White Horse Tavern (or “The Dick Cavett Show”) as the best place to throw a bookish punch. Read the whole story:...
AllVoices, May 20, 2011
...QVC home-shopping channel mogul John Malone offer to buy Barnes and Noble for one billion dollars in cash?...Dale Peck explains why authors and readers need to fight the publishing industry as we know it. It's time writers thought of themselves as an...
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate, October 11, 2011
...that are not known.” If he was late to the party, what about us?... more» Step aside, Dale Peck. When it comes to sheer brutishness, no book critic compares to John Wilson Croker, who wrote the review that killed John Keats... more» The Teflon icon....
JUST BOOKS, October 3, 2011
...I had a pretty good month in September for reading. This is what I read and they are all linked to my reviews if you want to take a peek. My favorite for the month was Buried Prey by John Sandford. Great book!18 Books Read6 Review BooksCloudy With a...
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate, September 18, 2011
...that are not known.” If he was late to the party, what about us?... more» Step aside, Dale Peck. When it comes to sheer brutishness, no book critic compares to John Wilson Croker, who wrote the review that killed John Keats... more» The Teflon icon....
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate, September 17, 2011
...that are not known.” If he was late to the party, what about us?... more» Step aside, Dale Peck. When it comes to sheer brutishness, no book critic compares to John Wilson Croker, who wrote the review that killed John Keats... more» The Teflon icon....
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate, August 8, 2011
...that are not known.” If he was late to the party, what about us?... more» Step aside, Dale Peck. When it comes to sheer brutishness, no book critic compares to John Wilson Croker, who wrote the review that killed John Keats... more» The Teflon icon....
The Factual Opinion, July 29, 2011
...that makes any sense to you. Do you share any of that? JOG: Ah ha ha, sneaking in Dale Peck , I see!  This is why I’m not well-read; I hardly recognized anyone he mentioned. STONE: Oh man, I didn’t even know that was him. “Hatchet Jobs”. “...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com, June 13, 2011
...that Paul Theroux has shaken hands with V.S. Naipaul, Rick Moody has thrown a friendly pie at Dale Peck and Twitter has supplanted the White Horse Tavern (or “The Dick Cavett Show”) as the best place to throw a bookish punch. Read the whole story:...