It is based on Rick Moody's story Mansion on the Hill (from his book Demonology).
In 2006, Arizona State Senator Thayer Verschoor cited complaints he had received about The Ice Storm as part of the reason he supported a measure allowing students to refuse assignments they find "personally offensive."
Such heavy use of product placement was not only a novelty in literature but also unprecedented for a published, established author (The Bulgari Connection was her 23rd novel), and a front-page article was published about it in the New York Times, quoting such writers as Rick Moody, J. G. Ballard, Michael Chabon, and Jeanette Winterson.
Rick Ross | Rick Perry | Rick Dees | Rick Santorum | Moody Radio | James Moody | Rick Rubin | James Moody (saxophonist) | Rick Moody | Rick Wakeman | Rick James | Rick Danko | The Moody Blues | Rick Astley | Rick Wagoner | Rick Springfield | Rick Snyder | Rick Scott | Rick Ross (rapper) | Dwight L. Moody | Rick Trevino | Rick Derringer | Rick Warren | Rick Reilly | Rick Prelinger | Rick Nowels | Rick Mercer | Rick Buckler | Rick Sternbach | Rick Smolan |
Marilynne Robinson, Haruki Murakami, Charles D'Ambrosio, Rick Moody, Anna Deavere Smith, Kelly Link, Daniel Alarcón, Juan Manuel Chavez, Santiago Roncagliolo, Miguel Gutierrez, Jillian Weise, Keith Lee Morris, Jonathan Lethem, Martha Cooley, Anne Carson, Delia Falconer, David Levi Strauss, Nam Le, Ander Monson, Maile Chapman, and Antoine Wilson.
Past judges of the BLR competitions have included Marie Howe, Rick Moody, Richard Selzer, Rafael Campo, Amy Hempel, Sherwin Nuland, Edward Hirsch, Ray Gonzalez, Abraham Verghese, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosellen Brown, Natalie Angier, Gail Godwin, Phillip Lopate and Tony Hoagland.
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The Bellevue Literary Review has published the works of Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Eamon Grennan, Julia Alvarez, Rick Moody, Hal Sirowitz, Charles Barber, Peter Selgin, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dixon, Virgil Suarez, Sheila Kohler, and Jacob M. Appel.
She has written and performed her own music with Shirley Simms and Michael Hearst (who she also helps manage) and has collaborated with author Rick Moody.
Sahre's designs for book covers are well-known and includes series by the authors Rick Moody, Ernest Hemingway and Chuck Klosterman.
The six of them met in Hoboken, New Jersey, in October, 2000, in order to launch the group and commence their activism by signing a statement of protest against a Guggenheim grant given to Rick Moody, an already-wealthy writer.