“But I don’t think it’s the best book I’ll ever write.” In fact, she’s much more excited by the medieval-set Lapvona, her fifth novel, out now via Penguin Press. In person, Moshfegh plays down the Rest and Relaxation hype. (They’re out of luck, though, if they try to tag her: She doesn’t have a presence online, aside from a Depop store where she sells secondhand clothes once her fans learned about it, the shop’s handful of followers ballooned into over a thousand.) People no longer just want to pose with her books they want to align themselves with Moshfegh herself. Suddenly, she was everywhere: on a Vogue Italia cover, in a print ad for Proenza Schouler, walking the runway at New York Fashion Week. Moshfegh has made a name for herself writing fiction about “unlikeable or even repulsive” people, and been hailed as “a pioneer of a new genre of slacker fiction” and “the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.” Her 2018 novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which chronicles a beautiful yet disaffected Upper East Sider who spends a year trying to snooze away her emotional baggage, became a sleeper hit - readers living in a sociopolitical hellscape, it seems, understand the impulse to nap through life - and solidified Moshfegh’s reputation as a literary “it” girl. “I love books as objects,” Moshfegh tells me over another cigarette. It would be catnip for influencers - the same ones who have taken to conspicuously carrying Moshfegh’s novels in one hand and a pastel Telfar bag in the other. Her East Pasadena home, a historic Pueblo-style property enveloped by palms and pines, serves as an attractive backdrop. The author herself is standing on the terrace, dressed all in white and finishing a cigarette. “Usually rich, handsome, someone who can financially provide and make you feel like a queen.When I pull up to Ottessa Moshfegh’s driveway, the first thing I see is the bumper sticker on the car in front of me: “Honk if you don’t exist.” I resist the urge to lay on the horn. Many of the videos she encountered appeared empowering and then stated at the end it could be used to get a man. The 22-year-old from Canada shared her grievances on TikTok recently, and believes the videos are “clickbaity” and problematic. In some instances, dark feminine energy TikTokers encourage users to cut off people (no nuance is offered as to why), while many of the bigger accounts direct users to recent books they have written on the subject or masterclasses for a price.Īnna Neza is not a fan of the trend. It's all about 'how to be more feminine to seduce the man you want', 'how to be more feminine to be more attractive', 'how to look more feminine' – all these very surface level things about 'feminine energy',” says Aleesha, who is based in Australia. “I think a lot of content we see on TikTok and other apps that relates to feminine energy is again similar to what we see in mass media. It is a way for us to reclaim that power because we have been giving it away to others for far too long,” she says. But really, this woman is just honouring her emotions and boundaries. “A woman in her dark feminine energy can be very emotionally intense or can come off as a ‘bitch’. “I left my job, my four-year relationship ended, my social circle changed.” Stepping into the energy allowed her to “become less afraid of the necessary shifts happening in my life”.Īri loves that dark feminine energy is a trend, as she believes it offers solace from the trauma of living in a patriarchal society. “I've been enjoying sex more, manifesting my desires and honing my psychic abilities.”īased near New York City, Ari felt she “fully stepped into” her dark feminine after experiencing lots of big life changes. Through connecting to this energy, she says she has become less of a people pleaser. It was more so an inner calling,” she says. “I felt this call to explore this aspect of myself. Ari Selene, 25, came across spiritual TikToks last July and transitioned into making dark feminine energy videos in November.
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