January 30 – Ottessa Moshfegh – Fiction Reading – Buttrick 101 @ 7 PM
Ottessa Moshfefh Fiction Reading: January 30 @ 7 PM in Buttrick 101
The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series will host Ottessa Moshfegh for a fiction reading on January 30 at 7 PM in Buttrick Hall, Room 101. Click here for a downloadable copy of the poster for the event. Click here to download the press release.
Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of four novels My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, Lapvona and Eileen, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella McGlue. She lives in Southern California. Originally from Boston, Ottessa Moshfegh now lives in Los Angeles. She has received the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Award, and a Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review for her short fiction as well as a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A prolific essayist, Moshfegh’s work has appeared in outlets including Vice, The New Yorker, Granta, and various online journals.