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  • Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and a novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., Too Much of Nothing, as well as a travel book about surfing, Sweetness.

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    Michael Scott Moore

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    Los Angeles, The United States

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    Michael Scott Moore is a literary journalist and novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., "Too Much of Nothing," as well as a travel book about surfing, "Sweetness and Blood," which was named a best book of 2010 by The Economist and Popmatters. He was kidnapped in 2012 on a reporting trip to Somalia and held hostage for two and a half years.

    His book about the ordeal, "The Desert and the Sea,"
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    Michael Scott Moore’s most recent book is The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast (2018). He is a contributor to The New Yorker and New Lines Magazine.

    Articles

    • Warlike Dreams of the Primate: On Vladimir Sorokin’s “Blue Lard” and “Red Pyramid”

      Michael Scott Moore assesses the legacy of the Russian surrealist Vladimir Sorokin.

      Michael Scott MooreJun 17, 2024

    • That Mystic Shit: On Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line” and Will Hermes’s “The King of New York”

      Michael Scott Moore writes on the life, death, and possible religion of Lou Reed, via Lou Reed’s “The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi” and Will Hermes’s “Lou Reed: The King of New York.”

      Michael Scott MooreMar 2, 2024

    • The Photic and the Deep: On Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”

      Michael Scott Moore reviews Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.”

      Michael Scott MooreJan 20, 2023

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      Michael Scott Moore

      American journalist

      Michael Scott Moore

      Moore reads at Politics & Prose bookstore, July 28, 2018

      Born1969 (age 55–56)
      Los Angeles, California
      OccupationAuthor, journalist
      LanguageEnglish, German
      CitizenshipUS, Germany
      Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
      Genrenon-fiction, fiction
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      Michael Scott Moore (born 1969) is an American journalist and novelist. He is the author of Sweetness and Blood (2010), about the history of surfing, and The Desert and the Sea (2018), a memoir about his captivity in Somalia.

      Moore graduated from University of California, San Diego in 1991 with a degree in German Literature. He lives in Berlin and also holds German citizenship. In January 2012, he was abducted in Galkayo, Somalia while researching a book about piracy.[1] Moore was held captive for over two and a half years, and released September 22, 2014.[2]