Richard Peabody wears many literary hats. He is editor of Gargoyle Magazine (founded in 1976), and has published a novella, two books of short stories, five books of poems, and co-edited seven anthologies with Lucinda Ebersole—Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, Mondo Marilyn, Mondo James Dean, Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion, and Sex & Chocolate. He also edited A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation for Serpent’s Tail in 1997. Peabody teaches fiction writing at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and in the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies Program. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Margaret and their daughters Twyla Grace and Laurel Ellen. You can find out more about him at atticusbooks.com or authors.previewport.com.

What Others Say

Sugar Mountain is a gripping post-modern study of the disintegration of the soul in a world where personal mythology is shaped by icons of popular culture, where we define each other and ourselves by impersonal references: the bars, the restaurants, the music, the art, the movie stars and Kama Sutra positions we prefer. Using multiple points of view and disruptive asides, Rick Peabody conveys a world of alienation and loss in our nation’s capital, a place where three lives play out the inevitable betrayals of body and soul. It’s a dark and comic look at how hungry we are for connection and how we can become innocently and ignorantly lost.

    —Jane Bradley, author of Living Doll and Power Lines

O Youth, O Age in this Peter-Pan-grunge, walking-’60s-wounded, slacker-nostalgia novel about latterday Bohemia keeping the only faith it has, which is to say the belief that music, art, sex, drugs, brand-names and dancing will save it from … whatever. The joys, despairs and fatalism of endless basement-apartment hedonism are collected here like fireflies in a jar.”

    —Henry Allen, Washington Post staff writer and author of Fool’s Mercy

Links

• Gargoyle Online