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Rachel Kushner

American Writer

Born: 1968

Art Me People Think World You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles. Rachel Kushner

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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me. Rachel Kushner

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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character. Rachel Kushner

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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth. Rachel Kushner

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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly. Rachel Kushner

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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government. Rachel Kushner

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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt. Rachel Kushner

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Prayer is so complicated. Rachel Kushner

Prayer Complicated

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold. Rachel Kushner

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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something. Rachel Kushner

For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't. Rachel Kushner

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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing. Rachel Kushner

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones. Rachel Kushner

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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book. Rachel Kushner

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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment. Rachel Kushner

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There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened. Rachel Kushner

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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global. Rachel Kushner

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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely. Rachel Kushner

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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks. Rachel Kushner

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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way. Rachel Kushner

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We're all performing for someone. Rachel Kushner

Someone Performing

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