“This book would not exist if McGlue had not found me”: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh - Chicago Review of Books

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“This book would not exist if McGlue had not found me”: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh - Chicago Review of Books

A decade ago, after being selected by Rivka Galchen as the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose, a rather unique novella about a drunken and murderous sailor was published. This literary debut was titled McGlue (2014), and its author was neither a sailor nor a murderer, although—as she admits in this interview—someone with a dipsomaniac, and somewhat amnesiac, past. Since then, Ottessa Moshfegh (Boston, 1981) has become a writer characterized b…