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Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. Her new book, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 was published this spring.


Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”
April 1, 2025  By Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

The Author of “Creation Lake” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
September 3, 2024  By Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

In Praise of Mother Juno by the Gun Club
August 5, 2021  By Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner and Francisco Goldman on Autofiction, Identity, and the Novel

A conversation about Goldman’s new novel Monkey Boy
June 1, 2021  By Rachel Kushner
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A New Story By Rachel Kushner:
“The Mayor of Leipzig”

"I personally know the author of this story you’re reading."
December 9, 2020  By Rachel Kushner
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