![]() ![]() ![]() Issy Wood is an artist who lives and works in London. ![]() ![]() She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. “Both Moshfegh and Wood share a gothic, spiky humor and an attunement to the darker currents of the world, the hidden realms where shame and desire intersect.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR, ARTIST, & EDITOR Produced in response to Moshfegh’s writing, Wood’s painting The down payment (2021) portrays a weeping Jerome in the midst of what the artist calls “the most directly surreal part of the story.” The pairing of writer and artist was an obvious one, says Cline. Matched with an artwork by Issy Wood, the publication inaugurates Gagosian’s Picture Books, an imprint conceived by author Emma Cline and dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists. It might be the one thing you’re getting right.” In Ottessa Moshfegh’s acerbic narrative, My New Novel, struggling writer Jerome Littlefield trades verbal blows with his mother his therapist and Stacey, a pregnant stripper who responds to his appeal for an “attentive individual to sit and listen. ![]()
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