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Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Fence, Bomb, The Believer, Grand Street, the New York Times, and Artforum. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, where she is at work an a second novel.

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Guardian.co.uk, November 2, 2009
...by James Anderson James Howard Kunstler   World Made By Hand Hanif Kureishi   Something To Tell You Rachel Kushner   Telex from Cuba Feri Lainscek   Murisa translated by Erica Johnson Debelsak Charles Lambert   Little Monsters Patrick Lane  ...
Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2009
...s not all screaming fans and campy musical numbers. For serious fiction, there's a long lineup, including Rachel Kushner, whose debut novel "Telex from Cuba" was a National Book Award nominee; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, who was a finalist for the...
Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2009
...Rachel Kushner's debut, "Telex From Cuba," is one of six novels that are finalists for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize , it was announced Tuesday. Inaugurated in 2006, the Dayton...
New York Times, August 18, 2009
...Richard Bausch; ?The Plague of Doves? by Louise Erdrich; ?Beijing Coma? by Ma Jian; ?Telex from Cuba? by Rachel Kushner; and ?Song Yet Sung? by James McBride. The nonfiction finalists are ?Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of...
National Post, July 17, 2009
...my rule.? ? ?You have to have a huge appetite for solitude.? [Watch for Q&As with Martin Amis, Rachel Kushner, David Mitchell and other Humber School for Writers faculty in the weeks ahead. And look out for the next installment in the ongoing...
Examiner.com, July 9, 2009
...literary world, which mostly depicts a social class whose troubles take hold despite money and elite schooling. Blogger Rachel Kushner, herself a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008, remembers being inspired by Nelson Algren to work 'the morning...
Washington Post, June 24, 2009
...of Roxana Robinson's novel Cost (Picador, $15), a family drama about the ravages of heroin addiction. -- Rachel Kushner, whose mother spent a portion of her childhood in the compound of the United Fruit Co. in pre-Castro Cuba, evokes a multilayered,...
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2009
...moderated a discussion between Chris Abani (?Graceland,? ?The Virgin of Flames?), Steve Erickson (?Zeroville,? ?Our Ecstatic Days?) and Rachel Kushner (?Telex From Cuba?) (pictured, left to right). Unlike other panels that spend half...
Christian Science Monitor, April 17, 2009
...Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Monitor review 5/16/08) 10. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser 11. Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner (Monitor review 7/18/08) 12. Netherland by Joseph O?Neill (Monitor review 7/11/08) 13. My Sister, My Love by Joyce...
Seattle Times, December 18, 2008
...ideas that's also an outdoor adventure story and comedy of fraud and errors. 'Telex from Cuba' by Rachel Kushner (Scribner). A debut novel about American corporate families in pre-Revolutionary Cuba, just when the Castro brothers were making things...
National Post, December 8, 2008
...controversy by Mark Medley TAGS: Books, news December 01, 2008, 12:30 PM Martin Amis, David Mitchell, and Rachel Kushner to teach at Humber School for Writers by Mark Medley TAGS: Books, news November 28, 2008, 11:17 AM Man Asian Literary Prize-winning...
National Post, December 1, 2008
...Acclaimed British author Martin Amis, Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist David Mitchell, and recent National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner will all teach at the 2009 session of Toronto's Humber School for Writers' Summer Workshop, it was announced on...
Recorder and Times, November 21, 2008
...Marilynne Robinson's Home, Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project, and debut authors Salvatore Scibona (The End) and Rachel Kushner (Telex from Cuba...
National Post, November 20, 2008
...s River (1997), and Bone by Bone (1999). The novel beat out Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project; Rachel Kushner's Telex from Cuba; Marilynne Robinson's Home; and Salvatore Scibona's The End. [Peter Matthiessen/Photo by For Focus Features] No comments...
ABC News, November 20, 2008
...were Robinson's 'Home,' Aleksandar Hemon's 'The Lazarus Project,' and debut authors Salvatore Scibona ('The End') and Rachel Kushner ('Telex From Cuba'). The nonfiction finalists were Mayer for 'The Dark Side,' a close look into the war against...
CFRB AM 1010, November 19, 2008
...were Robinson's 'Home,' Aleksandar Hemon's 'The Lazarus Project,' and debut authors Salvatore Scibona ('The End') and Rachel Kushner ('Telex From Cuba'). The nonfiction finalists were Mayer for 'The Dark Side,' a close look into the war against...
San Jose Mercury News, November 19, 2008
...were Robinson's 'Home,' Aleksandar Hemon's 'The Lazarus Project,' and debut authors Salvatore Scibona ('The End') and Rachel Kushner ('Telex From Cuba'). The nonfiction finalists were Mayer for 'The Dark Side,' a close look into the war against...
Eat, Sleep & Read!, October 11, 2009
...to kick off National Book Awards Week,” says Augenbraum. Ceridwen Dovey , Blood Kin (Viking, 2008) Selected by Rachel Kushner , 2008 Fiction Finalist for Telex from Cuba C. E. Morgan , All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) Selected by...
Jacket Copy, October 2, 2009
...s not all screaming fans and campy musical numbers. For serious fiction, there's a long lineup, including Rachel Kushner, whose debut novel "Telex from Cuba" was a National Book Award nominee; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, who was a finalist for the...
Jacket Copy, August 20, 2009
...Rachel Kushner's debut, "Telex From Cuba," is one of six novels that are finalists for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize , it was announced Tuesday. Inaugurated in 2006, the Dayton...
ArtsBeat, August 18, 2009
...Richard Bausch; “The Plague of Doves” by Louise Erdrich; “Beijing Coma” by Ma Jian; “Telex from Cuba” by Rachel Kushner; and “Song Yet Sung” by James McBride. The nonfiction finalists are “Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II,...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, August 5, 2009
...Era , but as a shorter defense of the workshop, I liked the comments by Telex From Cuba author Rachel Kushner . She’s teaching fiction for the first time , and talked to the National Post about it: There’s this argument — I mean, you see it...
Travel & Culture - Channel Feed, June 7, 2009
...I love it so much that I want to share the info. Written by current Los Angeles resident, Rachel Kushner, “Telex From Cuba” was nominated for a 2008 National Book Award and has garnered numerous reviews and accolades. I checked my copy out at the...
World Hum, December 30, 2008
...up to their departure, and the clothes, jewelry, and dolls left behind.  With the recent publication of Rachel Kushner’s novel, Telex from Cuba , and Tom Gjelten’s Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause , along with the...
Cerebral Distortion, December 18, 2008
...12.18.2008 Bookmarks' Best Books of 2008 #fullpost} Occasionally I will buy Bookmarks' magazine to find my next entertaining read. I like to travel with a book review magazine; it helps when I lack the concentration for a novel. The only gripe I have is...
Baby Got Books, December 8, 2008
...Downtown Owl by Chuck Klusterman The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway Serena by Ron Rash Metropole by Farenc Karinthy A Person...
Entertainment News: CBSNews.com, November 20, 2008
...s "Home," Aleksandar Hemon's "The Lazarus Project," and debut authors Salvatore Scibona ("The End") and Rachel Kushner ("Telex from Cuba"). Runners-up in nonfiction were Jane Mayer for "The Dark Side," a close look into the war against terrorism; Jim...