OTTESSA MOSHFEGH'S XL LOVE/HATE LIST

40 Things Ottessa Moshfegh Loves and Hates

Dream Baby Press

asked Ottessa Moshfegh for a list of 20 things she loves and 20 things she hates.

Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of six books of fiction including My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen, for which she also co-wrote the film adaptation starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway. She gives weekly writing advice and publishes fiction and (creative) non-fiction on her Substack:

This week, she interviewed Anna Delvey about what her life was like in high school.

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Ottessa Moshfegh

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THINGS OTTESSA MOSHFEGH LOVES:

1. Waking up before dawn

2. Singing to my dogs

3. Buying myself flowers

4. Making a to-do list and doing it all

5. Throwing out my old underpants

6. The moon and stars

7. Writing novels

   

8. The low desert

9. James Ivory's "A Room with a View"

10. Josh O'Connor in "La Chimera" and "Challengers"

    

11. Wearing a coat

12. Not smoking cigarettes and not being addicted to nicotine

13. Watching "Forensic Files" and falling asleep in a hotel bed

    

14. Coming home from a trip and doing my laundry

15. Great stand-up comedy

16. Other people being mature and flexible

17. Seeing my friends succeed

18. "Sister Act"

19. All the music I loved in high school especially Joni Mitchell's Mingus album

20. My body

THINGS OTTESSA MOSHFEGH HATES:

1. Genocide

2. Sex Trafficking

3. Chronic constipation

4. Receiving expensive gifts I don't need or want or like

5. Out-of-tune singing

6. Guns

   

7. My regular dreams about absolutely disgusting public bathrooms

   

8. That girl at Whole Foods three years ago

   

9. The fact that Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn no longer do "Project Runway"

   

10. The fact that Julian Sands died hiking Mount Baldy

11. Being interrupted

12. Animal cruelty

13. The Climate Crisis

14. Jetlag

15. Going to the vet

16. Gambling

    

17. Going to the dentist

18. Being wrong

19. Carsick-ness

20. Pedophilia

21. Hemp milk

    

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