I spent ten years riding motorcycles. Rachel Kushner motorcycleridespend Change image and share on social
Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers. Rachel Kushner dannyfavoritelyon Change image and share on social
When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper. Rachel Kushner biteconversationpolitenes Change image and share on social
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience. Rachel Kushner chatchitexperience Change image and share on social
I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me. Rachel Kushner alienkindlisten Change image and share on social
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel. Rachel Kushner answerbookhistorical share on social
My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names. Rachel Kushner beatnikbohemianbrother share on social
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe. Rachel Kushner knowmakenarrator Change image and share on social
