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Ottessa Moshfegh

City Arts & Lectures

CHAPTER

The Limitations of Liability in a Novel

Eileen is very specific in her organic body odor, ness. She's really kind of distracted by her own mortality in its most physical sense. On the outside, she's just this like, mousy 24-year-old,. you know, nothing that special, nothing that terrible, nothing that beautiful. So I had to write it out and imagine it. Like what does it feel like to walk in the room and have everyone hate you a little bit? It was very, very alienating and difficult to know who to trust.

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