Ottessa Moshfegh
Wide Awake, Finally: Our Last Corona Book Club
We discuss the last two chapters of Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" with VICE readers.
What Happens When It’s Time to Return to the Real World?
It’s week six of Corona Book Club, and the narrator of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ has lost her precious sleep-inducing pills.
What Makes You Return to a Bad Ex-Boyfriend? It's Week Five of Corona Book Club
This week, the narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' calls on an old coping mechanism by the name of Trevor.
Four Sleeping Pills and a Funeral: Week Four of Corona Book Club
VICE staff and readers discuss the fourth chapter of Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation."
Blacking Out in a Juicy Couture Tracksuit Is a Lockdown Mood
It’s week three of Corona Book Club, and we’re discussing the third chapter of ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation' – including the narrator's noughties wardrobe.
Can You Sleep Yourself to Happiness?
For this week's Corona Book Club, we dive into chapter two of 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation.'
This Darkly Funny Book Preempted Quarantine Life
In the first instalment of our Corona Book Club, we read chapter one of Ottessa Moshfegh's 2018 novel 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation.'
The 10 Best Books We Read in 2018
Revelatory short stories, genre-bending prose, and more of our favorite writing from 2018.
An Excerpt from Ottessa Moshfegh's Upcoming Novel, 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation'
A woman decides to hibernate by taking as many psychiatric medications as she can convince her psychiatrist to prescribe her. But reality calls her out of hibernation when her best friend's mother dies, and she must go to the funeral.
VICE Magazine's 11th Annual Fiction Issue Is Now Online
We have stories from Joyce Carol Oates, Tim Parks, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Shields, Alexia Arthurs, and many more.
Read 'The Pornographers', New Fiction From Ottessa Moshfegh
A short story by the young American writer.
VICE Magazine's Tenth Annual Fiction Issue Is Now Online
Ten years ago, it felt like there were a lot of big magazines publishing fiction. In 2016, we are one of the few magazines that still publishes fiction in almost every issue, in addition to this, our yearly fiction issue. That's something.