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Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still cant shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, and religions influence on contemporary culture and society.
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A madcap, deep, hopeful, absurd, learned, solemn, silly, and somehow redeeming look at the hell we make for ourselves, the hell the world offers, and the heaven to be found if only we look in the heart of each of our hearts, plus cartoons!
Bill Roorbach, author of Life among Giants
I dont dare say that Dintys Inferno is better than Dantes. But it is a hell of a lot funnier. Its so funny that you dont realize how smart it is until its too late: youve suffered Deep Thoughts. You realize youve been not only entertained but enlightened. Okay, okay, to hell with it: Dintys is better.
Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
To Hell with It is a fascinating, humorous, and compelling cosmology to revel in. This is stand-up theology at its finest.
Sue William Silverman, author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
Praise for Dinty W. Moores Between Panic and Desire
Between Panic and Desire is more autopsy than memoira strange new hybrid. Its a fantasy of letting go of the things that have haunted Moore his entire life. These things do, in fact, float off the pages.
Los Angeles Times
[A] quirky, entertaining joyride.
Publishers Weekly
Moore forges a brisk, incisive, funny, sometimes silly, yet stealthily affecting memoir in essays and skits, a generational autobiography, and good candid guy stuff.... Each anecdote, piece of pop-culture trivia, and frankly confessed panic and desire yields a chunk of irony and a sliver of wisdom.
Donna Seaman, Booklist
Between Panic and Desire turns the memoir genre on its head as it deftly moves from essay to essay.
Peter Grandbois, Review of Contemporary Fiction
The writing is frequently very funny, insightful, too, especially Moores belief that humans are generally delusional when it comes to their expectations vs. what is realistically possible.... The narrative has its poignant moments, particularly in Moores recollections of his father. And despite his fractured take on the world, his message is essentially hopeful. Moore, it seems, is moving on.
Robert Kelly, Library Journal
This book is funny, funny, funny. It is an unconventionalsome might say experimentalcollection of frolicsome and touching personal essays.... The book is a rare example of how unusual form actually helps. It is the ideal display for Dintys imagination. He daydreams. He fantasizes. He hallucinates. And this is nonfiction. For anyone who thinks the genre is nothing more than a retelling of facts, pick up a copy of Between Panic and Desire.... It is literary nonfiction with integrity. And its fun.
Oxford Town
In intertwined, wildly inventive essays... Moore conjures up his, and our, past from a grab-bag of elements.... He doesnt work through this crazy salad so much as play with it, using individual motifs as shiny mosaic stones to arrange in funny, intriguing shapes.
Athens News
From the outset it is clear that our author, a seasoned writer of creative nonfiction, is on a quest of discovery, understanding, and forgiveness. His style of writing is engaging and the structure intriguing in this fast-paced, quirky memoir that is deadly serious.
Sue Kreke Rumbaugh, Coal Hill Review
This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directionsplayfully, sincerely, and intelligently. This is a terrific book.
Bret Lott, author of Jewel
Dinty W. Moores prose is crisp and clean, his insights sparkle with biting clarity and magnetic charm. This is an unusual, joyful, and compelling memoir.
Lee Gutkind, editor of Creative Nonfiction
Hear that? That is the sweet sonic boom of the Baby Boom barrier being broken by this elegant flight of essays launched from the steely hand of Captain Dinty W. Moore in his remarkable memoir Between Panic and Desire. Impossible, they said, to reveal this precisely that sense of time, place, and even space. Listen: Read, read, read. Words away! Thats it. Exactly. Like that.
Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone: Fictions
American Lives
Series editor: Tobias Wolff
Dinty W. Moore
University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln
2021 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover illustration csaimages.
Author photo Renita M. Romasco.
Illustrations by Dinty W. Moore.
An earlier (abridged) version of the The Little Heretics New Baltimore Catechism was published online at Electric Literature, November 9, 2015, https://electricliterature.com/inside-information-on-the-existence-of-god-an-essay-by-dinty-w-moore/. The Burning Bush was published in the Kenyon Review 42, no. 6 (2020): 6975.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moore, Dinty W., 1955 author.
Title: To hell with it: of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dantes entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno / Dinty W. Moore.
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. | Series: American lives | Includes index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2020031220
ISBN 9781496224606 (paperback)
ISBN 9781496225702 (epub)
ISBN 9781496225719 (mobi)
ISBN 9781496225726 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH : Moore, Dinty W., 1955Anecdotes. | Moore, Dinty W., 1955Religion. | Dante Alighieri, 12651321. Inferno. | Dante Alighieri, 12651321Influence. | Authors, American20th centuryBiography.
Classification: LCC PS 3563. O 612 Z 46 2021 | DDC 818/.5409 [B]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031220
The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
To Renita, once again, and forever
How can one better magnify the Almighty
than by sniggering with him at his little jokes,
particularly the poorer ones?
Samuel Beckett
Throughout the text that follows, I have capitalized words such as Hell, Heaven, and the use of He when I am referring to Jesus or God. This would seem to imply some level of belief in the mystical or sacred properties of mere words, but that is not the case.
I went back and forth on the question of capitalization, wasting more time than I wish to admit here, toggling the search and replace function on my word processor. In the end I realized thatlike so much of our religious indoctrinationthe use of uppercase in these instances was so deeply ingrained that lowercase was ultimately distracting, even to the agnostic eye.
Plus, what if Im dead wrong about all of this?
Lets start here:
In one of my earliest childhood memories, my fathera sweet, clever, funny man who drank far too muchis standing in a hole.
A mechanics pit, to be precise. A six-by-twelve-foot rectangle cut seven or so feet deep into the cement floor of the local Chevrolet dealerships repair shop. This was before hydraulic lifts became standard. This was when a car would be brought into the garage and driven directly over the pit, when a mechanic would need to descend into the hole to access the automobiles undercarriage, to change the oil, wrench off the muffler, or adjust the springs.
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