Ottessa Moshfegh & Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is the author of novels\xa0The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and\xa0Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories,\xa0The Strange Case of Rachel K. Her career-spanning book of essays\xa0The Hard Crowd, solidified her place of authority amongst today\u2019s writers, covering everything from a Palestinian refugee camp to her young life in the San Francisco music scene. Kushner has won the Prix M\xe9dicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.
\n\nOttessa Moshfegh\xa0is a stand-out in contemporary literature. With worlds and minds that manage to be both dark and intricate, as well as elegant and neurotic, her writing trails a unique and poignant thread of what it means to live in the now. She is the author of the novels\xa0My Year of Rest and Relaxation\xa0and\xa0Eileen, the novella\xa0McGlue, the short story collection\xa0Homesick for Another World, and she has three film adaptations in the works. Her newest book,\xa0Lapvona, is a medieval fantasy set in a fictional village struggling with the sordid aftermath of a plague; \u201cpart Dostoevsky, part Poe, and entirely her own\u201d (The Millions), the book showcases Moshfegh at seemingly her darkest.