‘The God of the Woods’ Author Liz Moore

This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies. Our guest today, writer Liz Moore, is on something of a roll. Her last two novels were national bestsellers. One, Long Bright River, a thriller about a policewoman patrolling a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where her drug-using sister is a sex worker, was made into an eight-part TV series on Peacock.

Moore was an executive producer, co creator, and co writer of the series, and its star, Amanda Seifrid, has earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Moore's latest bestseller, The God of the Woods, is set in a remote children's camp in the Adirondacks, where a young camper goes mysteriously missing. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan said when she read it, quote, I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air. Netflix has announced it will produce a limited TV series based on The God of the Woods. Moore's novels show quite a range of subjects.

The central character in an earlier novel, titled Heft, is a 450-pound shut-in in Brooklyn who longs for human connection. Liz Moore won the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, and her two most recent books were on Barack Obama's lists of recommended reading. Liz Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia, where fresh air is produced, and she directs Temple University's Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. Liz Moore, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you, Dave.

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