![]() We discussed, among other things, feminist writing, embarrassment as a literary subject, and why the uproar over Claire Messud’s “The Woman Upstairs” makes her angry. When Moshfegh and I chatted on a rainy day in a Williamsburg coffee shop, she was in the final months of a Stegner Fellowship. (Her story, “ Bettering Myself ,” was also featured in Recommended Reading, recommended by The Paris Review.) The following year, Moshfegh won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Paris Review has championed Moshfegh’s work, publishing several of her stories, and awarding her the Plimpton Prize in 2013. ![]() In her novella McGlue ( excerpted in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading), a drunk sailor is unable to remember if he has murdered his friend. In her short-story Disgust, a lonely Chinese man debases himself in his love for a faintly-known woman. This interest in the strange - a few striations from the humiliating - shows. ![]() Moshfegh writes, she says, to explore why people do weird things. This character study, however, is also the story of a bizarre murder. In Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, Eileen, the titular character works at a boys’ prison, lives with her alcoholic father in a town she cannot bear to name, and obsesses over her body’s inelegant systems and secretions. ![]()
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