Robert Faggen re Milosz In talking about American television, one would think that Milosz’scomplaints would be about television’s stupidity or insipidity. But what he said was, ‘The thing I don’t like most about television are ...
February 15, 2021
In 1985, Judith Moore, a Berkeley writer, was brought to San Diego to write feature stories for the Reader. In 1986, Moore began to take on the role of senior editor. Moore conducted and wrote a weekly interview with renowned writers.
Her own books include The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart (1987), Never Eat Your Heart Out (1997), and Fat Girl: A True Story (2006). Judith Moore was awarded two NEA Fellowships for literature. In 1995, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She died in 2007.
Some of her early Reader stories included:
Mananimal (philosophizing about the San Diego Zoo — Moore's first story written for the Reader, Jan. 27, 1983)
The Girls of Summer (interviews with teenagers on the beach, Aug. 28, 1986)
Angel of the Apocalypse (Herbert Marcuse's years at UCSD, Sept. 11, 1986)
Her Little Girl (Moore's grandmother, Aug. 27, 1987)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (interview with John Updike, Feb. 29, 1996)
How Far We Came To Be Here and How Much Along the Way We Lost (Thanksgiving dinner, Nov. 26, 1997)
Articles by Judith Moore
Czeslaw Milosz, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Quentin Bell, James Lee Burke, Tobias Wolff, David Lehman
To Arizona on bike, the San Diego River on foot, to OB hitching on semis, the Sea of Cortez with Dad
Say Ahoy, Somebody Their inability to tack against the wind cost the novices three agonizing hours from the time they reached Mission Bay until they landed. Somewhere in the bay there was a slip Rusty ...
February 13, 2021
New home ownership, my life as fat boy, Christmas in Tijuana, at Horton Plaza
What on Earth am I Settling For? I let the front yard go and worked on building a fence in back. I got so angry digging postholes in the rain one afternoon that I had ...
February 6, 2021
Oceanside Museum, Balboa Theater, bright eye of MOPA, scandal of MOCA
Pioneer in Oceanside “In San Diego, the most important piece of architecture is, of course, the Mission San Luis Rey. But I feel strongly that this [the Oceanside museum] is the next most important piece.” ...
January 23, 2021
Early blacks in San Diego, African-Americans on whites, 60s black power activists
None Darker Than Me “Another fact concerning the woman that occasioned surprise yesterday was the appearance at the undertaking parlors where her dead body lies of H. Milne, a colored blacksmith who lives on K ...
January 18, 2021
Hilltop High reunion on plane from Bien Hoa, General Krulak in Vietnam with three sons, everybody still says Saigon
When It’s Over When I was there in Vietnam, toward the end, I wanted only to get home again alive. I prayed to God and promised him that I would believe in him and tell ...
January 11, 2021
San Diego by the alphabet, letters from Jim Jones victims, local criminals who lift weights
ABCs of SD AIRPORT Drive the 5 from downtown and — boom! — just overhead, an aircraft with a bloated belly screams. Wheels down, tilting for landing, 50 yards between plane and road. Or how ...
December 13, 2020
Why to write Christmas letters, Catholic newlywed confesses, Truman Capote
Christmas Letters The letters sent during her children's early years offered tales of Bud's rise through academia, each new pregnancy, larger home, additions to those homes, children's grade-school successes, vacations. When the boys began to ...
December 12, 2020
Border Angels, being Muslim in San Diego, what's a green card worth?
Border Angels "We know the kind of people we catch here. They're horrible people." The Border Patrol agent's tone was no more than blandly informative. It was 7:00 p.m. July 16, and we were at ...
November 14, 2020