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Ottessa Moshfegh on Creative Inspiration, Mental Anguish, Substance Abuse, Sobriety, and Writing Into the Dark Places

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Darkness of Fiction

Otesa Moshfag: I don't know what people mean when they say that something isn't dark. create art that is like mercilessly dark for people that offers no oxygen and yetI also don't want to shy away from the very real existence of suffering how do you do it? "Dark is where everything happens" Otesa says in a conversation with writer Ivy Pacota who has a new novel out called sing her down which will be published next week.

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