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Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner
Photo credit Lucy Raven 2012

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Flamethrowers, is out in April, 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. It was named a best book by the Washington Post Book Book World, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon. Kushner's fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, Cabinet, and Grand Street. She lives in Los Angeles.

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The Flamethrowers is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 02, 2013
The Flamethrowers will be released on April 02, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 02, 2013
Sep 30, 2009
Telex from Cuba is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 02, 2009
Telex from Cuba will be released on June 02, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Jun 02, 2009
Telex from Cuba is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 02, 2009
Telex from Cuba will be released on June 02, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Telex from Cuba will be released on July 01, 2008 in Hardcover
Jul 01, 2008
Telex from Cuba is now available in Hardcover
Jul 01, 2008
Telex from Cuba will be released on July 01, 2008 in eBook
Jul 01, 2008
Telex from Cuba is now available in eBook
Jul 01, 2008

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Booktrade - Book2Book, June 8, 2013
...When Rachel Kushner not a venerable male auteur writes the Great American Novel, male reviewers are flummoxed salon.com...
Guardian.co.uk, June 8, 2013
...War, Fiction, meanwhile, features The Other Typist, a jazz-age thriller by debut novelist Suzanne Rindell, The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which explores art and radicalism in 1970s New York, and The Trade Secret by Robert Newman. Nicholas Lezard's...
NBCNews.com, June 6, 2013
...sweet and smart book “that might be my new favorite book of the year.” She also picked out Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers” as one to watch. “I think it’s really brilliant, and I think that that’s going to be a big award book next...
Salon, June 5, 2013
...In 1963, Esquire magazine?s July issue was about the American literary scene, and featured an essay by Norman Mailer. Titled ?Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room,? the piece was a repeat of a survey of his ?rivals?...
Guardian.co.uk, June 5, 2013
...motorbike is the sensation of being carried by a machine far more powerful than you. This is how Rachel Kushner's exhilarating second novel moves: deftly, and at great velocity, but with power and precision. It's so good, it's a little frightening. It...
Guardian.co.uk, June 4, 2013
...Martin • Things That Are by Amy Leach Fiction: • Last Friends by Jane Gardam • Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner • The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell • Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss • All is Silence by Manuel Rivas • Apple Tree...
USA Today, May 29, 2013
...Atkinson (Life After Life). And Z (Therese Anne Fowler's novel about Zelda Fitzgerald). And The Flamethrowers (by Rachel Kushner). "...
Booktrade - Book2Book, June 8, 2013
...When Rachel Kushner not a venerable male auteur writes the Great American Novel, male reviewers are flummoxed salon.com...
Guardian.co.uk, June 8, 2013
...War, Fiction, meanwhile, features The Other Typist, a jazz-age thriller by debut novelist Suzanne Rindell, The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which explores art and radicalism in 1970s New York, and The Trade Secret by Robert Newman. Nicholas Lezard's...
Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2013
...End,” in which a husband and wife watch another couple fighting, only to take sides themselves. Read more Rachel Kushner’s second novel, “The Flamethrowers,” is a white-hot ember of a book. Taking place in Manhattan and Italy in the late 1970s,...
Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2013
...End,” in which a husband and wife watch another couple fighting, only to take sides themselves. Read more Rachel Kushner’s second novel, “The Flamethrowers,” is a white-hot ember of a book. Taking place in Manhattan and Italy in the late 1970s,...
Telegraph, June 7, 2013
...in the grounds from 11am - 4.30pm. Tickets £6; Malton, YO17 The Book Club The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner, is an adrenalin-fuelled coming-of-age novel about a young woman who travels from 1970s New York to the Italian political underground, via...
NBCNews.com, June 6, 2013
...sweet and smart book “that might be my new favorite book of the year.” She also picked out Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers” as one to watch. “I think it’s really brilliant, and I think that that’s going to be a big award book next...
AlterNet.org, June 5, 2013
...In 1963, Esquire magazine's July issue was about the American literary scene, and featured an essay by Norman Mailer. Titled "Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room," the piece was a repeat of a survey of his "rivals"...