Ottessa Moshfegh: Everyone asked me why I had written such a disgusting female character'

I felt that I was feeding the beast of a capitalist book industry while using my artistic sensibilities to sneak in some subversive ideas in order to feed myself and maintain my creative integrity. Maybe you would call this my Trojan horse.

I pit this character, Eileen, against one who felt wholly fictional, a creature that might have stepped straight out of a Hitchcock film.

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