Workshop 37: Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh says she writes to explore why people do weird things. The daughter of a Croatian mother and Iranian father, she was a serious piano student who knew she didn't want to be a pianist when she felt the call to write - and not just write,...
10 Minute Writer's Workshop · New Hampshire Public Radio
February 8, 201710m 44s
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Show Notes
Ottessa Moshfegh says she writes to explore why people do weird things. The daughter of a Croatian mother and Iranian father, she was a serious piano student who knew she didn't want to be a pianist when she felt the call to write - and not just write, but be bold.
We spoke to her before her reading at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
Episode Music: Kevin MacLeod, "Trio for Piano, Violin and Viola"
Credit Music: Uncanny Valleys, "Curious or Disconcerting"
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