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Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her second novel, The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. Her fiction and essays have toon meer appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, and Grand Street. She made the Bestseller List in 2018 with her title, The Mars Room. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Rachel Kushner

De vlammenwerpers (2013) 1,581 exemplaren
The Mars Room: A Novel (2018) 1,462 exemplaren
Telex from Cuba (2008) 680 exemplaren
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020 (2021) 143 exemplaren
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016) — Redacteur — 109 exemplaren
The Strange Case of Rachel K (1656) 68 exemplaren
Yoshitaka Amano (2002) — Essay — 16 exemplaren
The Mayor of Leipzig (2021) 6 exemplaren
Soft Targets: V.2.1 (2007) 4 exemplaren
The Great Exception (2007) 1 exemplaar
Alev Puskurtenler (2014) 1 exemplaar
Malina 1 exemplaar
The Adolescents 1 exemplaar
Kushner Rachel 1 exemplaar
Les routiers sont sympas (2021) 1 exemplaar

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The Border Trilogy (1999) — Introductie, sommige edities1,527 exemplaren
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Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (2022) — Medewerker — 130 exemplaren
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation (2017) — Medewerker — 118 exemplaren
The Best American Essays 2017 (2017) — Medewerker — 117 exemplaren
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic (2020) — Medewerker — 109 exemplaren
The Lover/Wartime Notebooks/Practicalities (2017) — Introductie — 32 exemplaren

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A collection of articles/essays written over a 20 year period. The acknowledgements reveal that most were previously published in some form in an impressive range of literary journals and magazines, but have been revised.

The pieces include memoir, travel, and pieces on literature and other culture. I enjoyed the memoir pieces and was quite startled by some of them. Between motorbike races and hanging out with biker friends, bar work (including stints at some very famous music venues in San Francisco, and travel), it's quite surprising that this woman found time to study to postgraduate level, and establish a writing career including these pieces and three novels.

I found the first couple of articles especially memorable

- Girl on a Motorcyle about being part of a group of young people involved in quite scary and dangerous long distance motorbike races

- We Are Orphans Here - about a visit to Shuafat Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem, in 2016, a place rarely visited by outsiders, some of the difficulties the occupants face and their opinions

I also liked pieces on American writer Denis Johnson and Nanni Balestrini (Italy) - I've only read one book by Balestrini, in a rather difficult experimental style (assuming the translation reflected the original). Made to Burn was originally published in a journal, and I don't know if the images there were produced in colour - here they are in black and white. This is a discussion of some of the images that inspired Kushner's second novel about Italy in the 1970s, The Flamethrowers. All of these and several other pieces make me want to read further, some time soon.

An intriguing and thought provoking collection.
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elkiedee | 5 andere besprekingen | Oct 25, 2023 |
Overall I think this collection suffers from being a bit uneven, but luckily there are more bangers than duds. While I enjoyed her essays on literary and art criticism, I much preferred Kushner's essays on her life and personal experiences.

Favorites: Girl on a Motorcycle, We Are Orphans Here, Made to Burn, Is Prison Necessary?, and The Hard Crowd.
 
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cbwalsh | 5 andere besprekingen | Sep 13, 2023 |
I enjoyed the hell out of this quirky novella. It's ~super existential,~ original, and it made for such a fun reading experience.
 
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4,079
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