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Thursday, 7 August 2025

The Write Advice 221: OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

 

I don't like literature that moralizes anything.  I mean, I think it's the most boring way to direct a reader's experience.  I like books that tell stories that I can experience and have different feelings about, and change my mind about it and it can stick with me and I can live with that story and reflect back on it in different ways, instead of it being one message.

 

Interview [Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2022]

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read the full 2022 interview with North American novelist OTTESSA MOSHFEGH:

 

 

https://ew.com/books/ottessa-moshfegh-interview-lapvona-trailer/

 

 

 

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