Essay Discussion: The Smoker by Ottessa Moshfegh
A close reading of that essay you loved/hated/thought was just okay.
Ottessa Moshfegh published an essay in The Paris Review recently called “The Smoker.” Her father, a Jewish immigrant who fled Iran after the Islamic Revolution in the 1970s, bought her a cheap house in foreclosure in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2009, in the midst of the subprime mortgage crisis. Thematically, it’s about benefiting …
