Recommended by George Kalantzis
Want to know what rawness feels like? Not only is she my writing pal, she's doing the work. She writes with her veins open. No filter. No safety net. The kind of writing that makes you uncomfortable in all the right ways. The stuff you read and think 'fuck, I wish I'd written that.' Check her out before she gets too famous to remember the rest of us.
When most writers are playing in the shallow end, she's drowning in the deep. If you've read 'Wild' or heard her podcast, you know. If you haven't, start here. The woman understands what it means to walk through ashes and not come out clean on the other side. She gets what I'm trying to do with men in fiction - she's been doing it with human suffering for years. Just truth that hurts and sometimes heals.
Her fiction feels like someone sneaked into your head, found your worst thoughts, and wrote them down before you could censor them. She writes women who refuse to be likable. Who embrace their own rot. Who stare into voids most writers pretend don't exist. Moshfegh is your next fix. She won't make you feel better.
