Over at the New Yorker, Ottessa Moshfegh has a new short story, “The Beach Boy.” Moshfegh also sat down with Deborah Treisman to talk further about her writing:
Isn’t it hilarious when people are blind to their own arrogance? For some, no amount of American liberal-arts education, charitable contributions, or hours spent listening to NPR will ever wake them up to their own privileged, bigoted, and classist attitudes. I’m being tongue-in-cheek in my answer to your tongue-in-cheek question, because, of course, education isn’t the cure for élitism. One might say that New Yorkers like the folks in “The Beach Boy” are especially susceptible to the kind of stupidity I love to write about—the stupidity of entitlement. John and Marcia do, after all, live in the bubble at the center of the universe.
