![]() ![]() Potentially a Ratner moment (she later said it ruined her chances of winning), the admission stoked the renegade aura of a writer who divides the critics. ![]() ā I needed to write something that was going to be reminiscent of the crap that people are used to ā¦ How do you expect me to make a living?! Iām not going to be making cappuccinos. W hen the US author Ottessa Moshfegh was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker prize with Eileen, a slow-burn psycho-noir narrated by an unloved prison clerk, she let slip that she wrote the book with help from a guide called The 90-Day Novel ā a calculated lunge for mainstream success following McGlue, her lauded but commercially disappointing debut set among sailors in 19th-century Zanzibar. ![]()
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