This girl is so captivating that I'd pay to read her grocery lists.

The interviewer does such an excellent job with such an excellent writer.

this book made me remember and realize how real and raw the human emotion is, and it's amazing how Moshfegh put it into words

Oh, she's fabulous! Thanks for doing this interview, Will. So much goodness in under 10 minutes. Well done!

What refreshing honesty! She is so interesting I could listen to her all day, She says she's not an entertainer, I disagree!

I'm soooooooo looking forward to this collection. Soooooo looking forward. She makes me laugh with her frankness.

Homesick for Another World was really good. Very impressive.

Eileen was such a strange, wonderful book! Want to get this as soon as possible!

She's absolutely wonderful just like her writing! Waiting for the remaining parts of this interview.

This is a very interesting interview. I love her books - they are weirdly cathartic. And she does make me laugh. Wish I could do that.

I could listen to her all day.

I found Eileen quite interesting, original and very gutsy. Looking forward to reading the short stories. Great questions, Wil.

Great interview! Haven't read any of her work yet but she seems cool and I'm hoping to read this collection.

She is FANTASTIC! Her stories are so raw, bare and alive. I'll probably finish the book tonight, even though I don't want to. My standards for short stories are now set so high. It just doesn't get better than this!

I've never hear of this writer before today, but I can already tell I'm really gonna like her.

omg love her love her!!!! can't wait to get to it.....your organic soul...how rich is that???

Oh my god this sounds amazing.

she so gets me its unreal

This book was so impressive

Will buy all the books she publishes forever 😁

Good interesting interview. Her short story collection sounds interesting though I must confess I'm not a huge fan of short stories, unless there's some theme that links them. Otherwise I forget most of the stories so soon after reading them. Eileen is a very memorable story with two unforgettable characters, Eileen and Rebecca. A very good debut novel.

love her❤

Her new book is really good.

Moshfegh has a very intriguing take on her literature.

Amen!

she's a fucking genius

while you, Otessa, were speaking about the body and how it easily goes ignored, i found myself getting lost in the the sheen of your lip at the right corner of your mouth in the video. I agree with what you say. Daily i appreciate the bodies of strangers as i go about my day. i appreciate their imperfections, those idiosyncrasies belonging unique to some other's body. It is a strange habit, and can draw typical comments but never action, somehow it's understood as a habit of an individualized aesthetic even by ordinary minds!

Who is he? What is his name?

The NewYorker has an interesting profile on the writer this month (July, 2018). I had never heard of Moshfegh before. I am going to read her. The NewYorker article is interesting because it covers some time over her life, to the point when the solitary artist enters into a relationship with a writer, a few years younger. He appears, from the article, to be an extrovert very much wanting favourable attention. Moshfegh moves into her boyfriends cabin in the desert in California, not too far from where her father and sister have moved. The article suggests she is head over heals with the man. The quotes in the article from her love interest suggest a pretentious bore.

"Where do your ideas come from?" .. really?

"Twisted and dark" means low vibrations and evil. Nothing new under the Sun. Too bad she's a very good writer.

I read a published piece online and that was enough for me. I don't need to immerse myself in someone's stuff to realize I don't dig it. I watched one Michael Bay movie to recognize the fact the guy is crushingly awful. I was rather hoping you'd write: If you can do better, Chris ... Here ya go: "Eldern and youngern trees are fulgently fantasticated, and an umbrageous populace alienates on gambogian ground in presentiments of palsy."

I respect her writing so much, but yet her tone and voice reminds me of a precocious teenager, jabbering on about things she has no idea about whilst trying to sound smart.

I thought she was a genius but now I think she’s dumb. “What isn’t twisted and dark” is such a dumb justification that doesn’t hold up if you poke at it for more than a second. Also she’s always like “I don’t see myself as a ___”, but then what do you see yourself as. Also, she can’t seem to wrap her head around the idea that people can want to change a system while still being trapped in that system.

At the risk of sounding trollesque, here's yet another example of a staggeringly sloppy and mediocre writer getting her pedestrian crap published. Pubs run from risk. Write a mind-blowing work that takes place in a world in a person's hair for example and an editor won't give you the time of day. Pen this unoriginal pap that's "raw" and the giddy publisher will push it on the public who will gladly buy it. Unreal.