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Rachel Kushner

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Born
Eugene, OR, The United States
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Fiction

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Don Delillo, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector, Roberto Bolaño, Joh ...more

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Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker Prize- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her novels are translated into 26 languages. She lives in Los Angeles and wants you to know that if you're reading this and curious about Rachel, whatever is unique and noteworthy in her biography that you might want to find out about is in her new book, The Hard Crowd, which will be published in April 2021. An excerpt of it appeared in the New Yo ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 82,128 ratings · 9,978 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors
The Mars Room
3.44 avg rating — 44,508 ratings — published 2018 — 60 editions
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The Flamethrowers
3.50 avg rating — 22,213 ratings — published 2013 — 62 editions
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Telex from Cuba
3.56 avg rating — 5,839 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
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Creation Lake
3.63 avg rating — 2,595 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions
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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000...
3.86 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 2021 — 20 editions
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The Strange Case of Rachel K
3.54 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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The Mayor of Leipzig
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“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
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“I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
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“I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
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