When Ottessa Moshfegh first met her now-husband, author Luke Goebel, there was no question the two would collaborate. But although they’d both published novels — Moshfegh is most well-known for My ...

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Could it be a coincidence that Ottessa Moshfegh’s brazenly unpleasant new novel, Lapvona, was released on the first day of summer this year? I can’t imagine that it is. The timing works in deadpan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Death in Her Hands" by Ottessa Moshfegh. (Penguin Press via AP) “Death in Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Greasy penis" is the ultimate Moshfegh-esque word pairing: sex-adjacent but unenticing. It doubly connotes glandular filth and ...

Gagosian's new Picture Books line pairs authors and contemporary artists, such as Ottessa Moshfegh's My New Novel and Issy Wood's painting "The down payment." Cline says on the book’s retail listing ...

Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel. In a recent survey of critical responses, writer Rich Juzwiak noted that there is strikingly little consensus ...

Ottessa Moshfegh isn’t feeling her best. It’s a Monday in April and over the weekend the Booker Prize-nominated novelist had been waylaid by allergies. But she rallies from the flu-like wallop that ...

It's become a common joke that the Germans have a word for everything (and that many of them are comically long and impossible to pronounce). But there's a grain of truth to it — take Sehnsucht, a ...

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In Melissa Broder’s “The Pisces,” it’s “pink and slimy.” Ling Ma’s “Severance” has “an ugly sea cucumber.” In Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Lapvona,” the designated putrid penis is described as “greasy,” and ...