![]() ![]() When I came back in, I found the email from my agent. “I’d had a hard day,” she says, “and I’d woken up at three in the morning in a state of panic, so went outside to smoke a cigarette – and I don’t smoke very much. ![]() I meet Moshfegh at her home in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, the day after she has learned of the Man Booker shortlisting. More significant is that this intense, singular novel – both playful and fierce – is not exactly what it seems. The coming together of a hip young “writer’s writer” with genre fiction has contributed to the buzz that has surrounded Eileen since its appearance in the US in 2015. Her prizewinning novella McGlue (2014) is literary and experimental, and her short stories have been published in such distinguished magazines as the Paris Review and the New Yorker. For some years she has been touted as a “crucial” new voice in American literature. Yet Moshfegh, 35, is not usually a writer of Hitchcockian page-turners. ![]()
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