Ottessa Moshfegh on LAPVONA
\u201cI wanted to write something that was going to take me away, literally and metaphorically, literally take me away from sitting with my feelings about the present moment and take me to another place and this time where you couldn't travel at all. I barely left the neighborhood to play out some imagined incredible drama \u2026 I think escapism has its purpose, you know, and so does fiction in general, if we want to live in the biggest world possible, we need everybody's imagination to be there in the ether so we can grab it and follow it and follow ourselves through this journey beyond what we know.\u201d Acclaimed author Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen,\xa0My Year of Rest and Relaxation) joins us on the show to take us behind the scenes of\xa0Lapvona, her unexpected new novel set in a medieval village. Ottessa riffs on putting so much of what disgusts her into this new novel, writing in the third person, faith, the importance of creating a new topography, what\u2019s next for her and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and his guest bookseller, Becky.
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Featured Books:
Lapvona\xa0by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation\xa0by Ottessa Moshfegh
Homesick for Another World\xa0by Ottessa Moshfegh
McGlue\xa0by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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A complete transcript of this episode is available\xa0here.