Rick Moody, the 39-year-old author of Purple America and The Ice Storm, collected 13 short stories in the new Demonology (Little, Brown, $24.95). Then he let journalists track snow into his girlfriend's Brooklyn apartment. -- Troy Patterson
TIRED DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERISTIC THEMES ''Suburban angst.'' -- Kirkus Reviews
ATTIRE Deep blue corduroy shirt, black jeans, black loafers.
BEVERAGE Celestial Seasonings' Roastaroma Herb Tea.
ATTITUDE TOWARD SHORT FICTION ''Novel writing requires a total commitment of my psychology and personality, so the stories become logical as a relief from that tremendous undertaking. Also, I can be more experimental or fanciful with form.''
FANCIEST EXPERIMENT IN THE NEW BOOK ''Wilkie Fahnstock: The Boxed Set'' the playlist and liner notes of a 10-volume mix tape. ''I made the tapes first and worked backwards,'' Moody says. ''That story cost $3,000.''
PET PEEVE ''There's one question that I loathe: 'Do you like the movie The Ice Storm?' Four years later, who gives a s -? Ask Ang Lee how he likes the book.''
FUTURE PLANS Finishing ''a genealogical memoir thing... It's about this guy who was the ostensible subject for a Hawthorne story called 'The Minister's Black Veil,' Joseph Moody, who killed a friend and later wore a veil out of remorse.''
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