Rachel Kushner’s Essays Cover a Lot of Ground, Driven by …
WEBApr 5, 2021 · There are intuitive appraisals of writers such as Denis Johnson, Clarice Lispector, Marguerite Duras and Cormac McCarthy. She writes about artists including Alex Brown and Jeff Koons.
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner - Goodreads
WEBApr 6, 2021 · In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras.
Reading guide: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
WEB6 days ago · In an interview with Lithub, Kushner said Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God was ‘strangely critical’ to the pacing and rhythm of Creation Lake. ‘I wanted to produce an effect like that book had on me, and make chapters that would be …
The Roving Mind of Rachel Kushner - The Nation
WEBMay 24, 2021 · The Hard Crowd, Kushner’s first collection of essays, is marked by the same qualities as her exceptional fiction: the roving, self-assured intelligence of an autodidact, a distrust of easy...
Rachel Kushner: ‘Ireland is my favourite place to go as a writer, it’s ...
WEBSep 8, 2024 · I decided the only person who could do that to full effect would be Cormac McCarthy.” Instead she chose a commune in France as a contemporary setting from which she could expound on these ideas.
Down South, by Rachel Kushner - Harper's Magazine
WEB“A child of God much like yourself perhaps,” Cormac McCarthy says of his antihero Lester Ballard, the hillbilly necrophiliac who disappears into the caves of eastern Tennessee, north of where Rudolph hid.
Rachel Kushner: By the Book - The New York Times
WEBFeb 6, 2014 · Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” is without question the book that made me want to try to be a fiction writer as an actual serious undertaking. If you could require the president to read ...
Rachel Kushner interview: ‘Reading Alice in Wonderland felt like a ...
WEBAug 15, 2024 · A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this part-spy novel, part-profound treatise on human history. The author of Creation Lake, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, discusses her fascination with prehistory, and the writer who established a new set of language rules.
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner review – New Journalism …
WEBMar 29, 2021 · Artists considered here include Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy and Marguerite Duras, tough guys and dames who invented a new language for their own preoccupations (as for her own casual...
The Hard Crowd | Book by Rachel Kushner - Simon & Schuster
WEB“Rachel Kushner's The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 starts with a bang: an account of her participation in the 1992 Cabo 1000, a perilous motorcycle race from San Ysidro, Calif., to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. But in this collection, featuring 19 pieces of edgy memoir, eclectic journalism and diverse criticism, Kushner consistently delivers on the ...