![]() Ottessa Moshfegh: I was living in Oakland. Verity Sturm: What’s the story of its genesis? But with Ottessa Moshfegh, what else can you expect? We also spent the first five minutes of our call chatting about the then-burgeoning pandemic, an eerily clairvoyant discourse in and of itself that I had to cut off to start our interview (Her take? “The timing of this outbreak is so creepy to me. We talked about alienation, genre conventions, and what it means to get older, among other things. I spoke to Ottessa Moshfegh over the phone about her new book in early March, back before its release date was twice postponed, along with a brief follow up mid-May. It’s a deeply internal thriller about what the mind can convince itself when left truly alone-the potential ramifications of what we now call social distancing, written years before it became a practice that defined our daily lives. ![]() In light of the current pandemic, Death in Her Hands feels eerily clairvoyant. ![]()
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