Her debut novel Eileen won The Hemingway/Pen Award and was shortlisted for The Booker Prize. The New Yorker termed her (and we readily agree)‘easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.’
Behold, Ottessa Moshfegh’s shortlist.
Fourteen Stories, None of Them are Yours by Luke Goebel
West of Eden by Jean Stein
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
You are Having a Good Time by Amie Barrodale
I Must Have You by Joanna Novak
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenich
Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldana Paris
What it Feels Like to Cry with Your Brain by Mark Baumer
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
Ottessa Moshfegh for Apartamento Magazine. Photograph: Ye Rin Mok.
Ottessa Moshfegh for The New York Times.
Ottessa Moshfegh for Apartamento Magazine. Photograph: Ye Rin Mok.
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