This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona, Homesick For Another World, Death in Her Hands and McGlue. Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill Dick will be released in 2024. Together Ottessa and Luke wrote the screenplay for the film Causeway and have now collaborated on an adaptation of Ottessa's acclaimed novel Eileen, which is released in cinemas on December 1st. We talked to them about formative reads, phoning Ken Kesey, aliens and Metallica.
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BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World
Luke Goebel - Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
JoAnna Novak - Contradiction Days
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards
Ben Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace and Other Stories
Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of a Gone World
Diane di Prima - Selected Poems
Ross Gay - Book of Delights
Abbott Kahler - Where You End
Margery Higdon - Alien Abduction of The Wyoming Hunter
Whitley Strieber - Communion
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Edith Wharton - House of Mirth
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
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