![]() The drunken sailor McGlue, the protagonist of Moshfegh’s 2014 novella of the same name, cocoons himself in his addiction and repeatedly bashes his skull against the wall. ![]() Her characters develop methods of simultaneously savoring and blunting their predicaments: the title character of “ Eileen,” Moshfegh’s 2015 novel, swaddles her genitalia in thick undergarments and then compulsively scrabbles at what’s hidden she gobbles laxatives and submits to great, “oceanic” shits. ![]() She has a freaky and pure way of accessing existential alienation, as if her mind were tapped directly into the sap of some gnarled, secret tree. ![]() Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible. ![]()
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