We’re thrilled to welcome novelist and screenwriter Ottessa Moshfegh to discuss how she adapted her novel Eileen for the screen. In conversation with Adam Biles.

Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

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Eileen is a peculiar young woman—aloof and unfazed by the gloomy nature of her job at the local youth prison. But something in her changes the day that the new counsellor, Dr. Rebecca St. John arrives. She is instantly captivated by Rebecca's glamorous, enigmatic presence… Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, and Anne Hathaway.

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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. 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. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.