Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers. She lives in Los Angeles.One of her influences is the American novelist Don DeLillo.

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction

Novels

Collections

Novellas and Short Stories

Series contributed to

Books containing stories by Rachel Kushner

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

Award nominations

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Denial (2022)
Jon Raymond
"The future is so painful to think about, and yet I was totally hooked into Jon Raymond's rendition of it in Denial, set in 2052: a world with new-fangled exhaustless cars but old philosophical quandaries, and older rituals: the bullfight, the scapegoat, the love interest. I blew through this book too quickly, but will be thinking about it for a long time to come."

Trust (2022)
Hernán Diaz
"Diaz understands, and deeply, how strange money is, as an omnipotent and imaginary substance that controls our lives. Trust glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery. Its plotlines are as etched and surreal as Art Deco geometry, while inside that architecture are people who feel appallingly real. This novel is very classical and very original: Balzac would be proud, but so would Borges."

Virtue (2021)
Hermione Hoby
"Hermione Hoby has a a high-wire command of language and a sensitivity for conjuring facets of being that I never knew could be described until I read Virtue."

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