![]() ![]() “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” has been making recent rounds on highly feminine internet subcultures, like high-fashion Instagram and cherry-emoji Twitter. It’s a stretch for sure, but the narrator genuinely believes that she can come to terms with her life after her parents’ deaths. Tuttle, the unnamed narrator spends an entire year trying to stay asleep in the hopes of waking up to a new perspective. With the help of the questionable-at-best psychiatrist Dr. The 2018 book by Ottessa Moshfegh takes the reader through the jagged depths of a young, rich, thin and beautiful woman’s tumultuous mind in the early 2000s. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.“My Year of Rest and Relaxation” isn’t just some novel: It’s a holy text. I’m a very sound-sensitive person, the kind where if I don’t see you walking into the room and you're like, “Hey, Ottessa,” I will literally jump out of my seat and scream. I have chronic back pain, so sometimes I’ll listen to a frequency that is supposed to alleviate pain. Occasionally, I’ll put on one of those YouTube recordings of a certain frequency. That's probably the weirdest thing - my vintage hoarding and attempt to declutter via Depop. I’ve been hoarding vintage jewelry and clothing since high school, and I’m constantly going through these bins full of jewelry and unearthing things and letting them go on Depop. I’m married to the current best popcorn-popper in North America. Dinner is always my big, exciting meal so that I can sort of sit back and reward myself after I’ve “written a lot.” But my night snack is popcorn. I eat really simply during the day I love toast. I had to read it three times to be able to walk away from it. It upset me, moved me, and made me laugh. It is so honest, disturbing, and gorgeous. It's a memoir about while in a residency in Taos, New Mexico, to write about the painter, Agnes Martin. The best book I read recently is a work of nonfiction called Contradiction Days by JoAnna Novak, who's a friend of mine. “I feel like I’m using my heart and mind more dynamically, and out loud, when I’m writing screenplays.”īelow, Moshfegh reflects on Depop, scouring YouTube for certain frequencies, and her husband’s popcorn talents. We would get up, do it, and see what we were feeling or what surprised us by the other person,” she adds. Arguments aside, Moshfegh and Goebel - who are now working on the script for Rest and Relaxation - manage to find fun in all the intensity. And that's basically what happened when we decided we wanted to do Eileen,” she says. “The way that we like to work together is at high speed and high intensity, sitting across from one another arguing for 14 hours a day. The writing process, on the other hand, was more of a dramedy. “When we would be talking about a story on a walk or over dinner it was always a film that we would be imagining together.” Now in theaters, the film adaptation is every bit the noir Moshfegh envisioned. Set in 1960s Boston, Eileen follows its titular protagonist (Thomasin McKenzie) as her mundane life working in a corrections facility for teenage boys is upended by the arrival of the glamorous new psychologist Rebecca (Anne Hathaway). ![]() ![]() One with a very contemporary point of view,” she says. “When I was writing the book I could see it as a Hitchcock-esque, modern noir film. They enjoyed the work so much that when the opportunity arose to adapt Moshfegh’s own novel, the Pen/Hemingway Award-winning Eileen, they jumped at it. Their first project was the 2022 Jennifer Lawrence film, Causeway. “So when we would be talking about a story on a walk or over dinner it was always a film that we would be imagining together.” “We met in my apartment in East Hollywood, which, as a fiction writer is such a cinematic place to live,” Moshfegh tells Bustle. But although they’d both published novels - Moshfegh is most well-known for My Year of Rest and Relaxation, while Goebel wrote Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours - it wasn’t a book they were interested in working on. When Ottessa Moshfegh first met her now-husband, author Luke Goebel, there was no question the two would collaborate. ![]()
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