Instant Lives And More
Invented biographies of the famous by the New Yorker's poetry editor, with drawings by Edward Gorey.
Howard Moss invents brief biographies of the famous, Gertrude Stein and Freud and the Brontës among them, each a page or two long and each entirely wrong, illustrated by Edward Gorey in his crosshatched Victorian manner. A collaboration between the poetry editor of The New Yorker and the century’s most distinctive small-press illustrator.
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Fran Lebowitz
And the More is a piece that I think is the funniest thing published in my lifetime. It is a parody of one of Ned Rorem’s diaries – Ned Rorem is a composer who published, over many decades, his diaries. It would be helpful if you’ve read the Ned Rorem diaries, but it’s not essential. Howard Moss, the poet, the professor and the poetry editor of The New Yorker for many years, published this piece in the early 70s.
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