TUSCALOOSA | Rick Moody, who built University of Alabama women's basketball from a lower-tier program into a national contender, decided it was time to step down when he saw the program fall from ...

By Rick Moody 306 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $28. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 14 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: He Said, He Said .

His midcareer wounding, at the hands of the critic Dale Peck, was a crisis in which his readers participated. Mr. Moody himself may care relatively little about the famous review — “Rick Moody is the ...