Browse Tag: Eileen

On this week's Tune in Tuesday, we're featuring an interview with Ottessa Moshfegh, author of EILEEN, a shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.  The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker and a secretary at the Moorehead boys' prison. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city, and fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting and stalking a prison…