J.R. Moehringer

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December 07, 1964 in New York City, The United States

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J.R. Moehringer is an American journalist and author. Born in New York City and raised in Manhasset, New York, he is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

A 1986 graduate of Yale University, Moehringer began his journalism career as a news assistant at The New York Times.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2000.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 9,493 ratings · 1,368 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Tender Bar 3.81 avg rating — 9,529 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Sutton 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	BEA BUZZ BOOKS: EXCERPTS FROM OVER 30 TOP FALL 2012 TITLES by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) (author), Junot Díaz, Jenny Han (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Quotes by J.R. Moehringer

“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?”
― J.R. Moehringer

tags: books , emotion , plot

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“I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar

tags: authorship

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“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar

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