Moshfegh wears a jacket and trousers by JIL SANDER, a bra by FLEUR DU MAL and shoes by THE ROW.
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
- Words Natasha Stallard
- Photos Luke Lovell
- Styling Heather Rest
The prolific writer's state of grace.
- Words Natasha Stallard
- Photos Luke Lovell
- Styling Heather Rest
- Hair & Makeup Hayley Farrington
- Tailor Logan Neitzel
Moshfegh wears a shirt by JIL SANDER.
( 1 ) Moshfegh learned to read music before she could read words, beginning piano lessons at the age of four. She gave it up in her teens, but considers her early musical training fundamental to her writing. “Writing, to me, is more musical than I think it is literary a lot of the time,” she told The New Yorker in 2018, “the way that a voice can sound and the way that it leads the reader in a sort of virtual reality, a journey through its own consciousness.”
The characters in Ottessa Moshfegh’s novels are often misfits, loners and outsiders. There’s the volatile alcoholic sailor (McGlue); the abused, laxative-consuming daughter (Eileen); and the rich girl who wishes to escape society through a year of medicated sleep (My Year of Rest and Relaxation). Her excellent short story collection, Homesick for Another World, is a study of unhappy girlfriends, depressed widowers, bulimics, dropouts and creeps who, no matter how much they try to escape their lives, only find themselves more trapped.
( 1 ) Moshfegh learned to read music before she could read words, beginning piano lessons at the age of four. She gave it up in her teens, but considers her early musical training fundamental to her writing. “Writing, to me, is more musical than I think it is literary a lot of the time,” she told The New Yorker in 2018, “the way that a voice can sound and the way that it leads the reader in a sort of virtual reality, a journey through its own consciousness.”
