I’m interested in the stories we tell ourselves, and how they may conflict with other people’s stories about the world, and how, if we’re operating under a delusion, we might make really weird decisions. I like to explore that in fiction—why we do weird things.
For Electric Literature, Megha Majumdar interviewed Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Eileen, and their conversation drifts from feminism to writing process to Moshfegh’s anger over some contemporary literature.
