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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Apr 16, 2020 · Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human. The author-provocateur’s latest novel is “a loneliness story.”. Just when it was scheduled to come out, isolation became the new normal. “I needed to write ...
Nov 25, 2023 · At 24, no stranger to heartache and trauma, she is still an adolescent. In modern pathology, she has an eating disorder, depression and is prone to fantasy, obsession and addiction; perhaps her...
Jul 2, 2018 · There was an unearthly quality to the atmosphere inside the Frieze New York art fair, like the air in a plane—still but pressurized, with an unsettling hum—when the fiction writer Ottessa...
Nov 30, 2023 · Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh — spouses, fellow novelists and co-screenwriters — collaborated to infuse a new film adaptation of her novel, “Eileen,” with “unflinching mischief.”
Jul 21, 2022 · He knew every inch of Ina's body by heart: her face like a desiccated apple, her large drooping ears, her pale and tender scalp, the billow of white hair fixed stiffly on top. He knew her...
Jun 21, 2022 · Fiction. A Medieval Dramedy Sheathed in Magic, and the Absurd. Ottessa Moshfegh’s fifth novel, “Lapvona,” is set in a corrupt fiefdom plagued by drought, famine and, well, plague. Daniele...
