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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.

THE COMING INSURRECTION
By Rachel Kushner - June 28, 2009
Hey, anyone who lives in LA, this is where I'll be Sat! http://la.thepublicschool.org/ The Public School will host a one-day class on June 27 to discuss The Coming Insurrection It's useless to wait—for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality the me must choose sides. Hosted by the ultrasmart philosopher Jason Smith, aka "El Guapo."