I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up. Rachel Kushner davisgrowposter Change image and share on social
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool. Rachel Kushner considermoneypaint Change image and share on social
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. Rachel Kushner cityconstantdecide share on social
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance. Rachel Kushner contradancecubandanzon Change image and 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
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 adultcarcountless share on social
Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. Rachel Kushner abstractaffectartistic share on social
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence. Rachel Kushner clevercriticdie share on social
I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having. Rachel Kushner appealexperienceman Change image and share on social
The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be. Rachel Kushner artistcharacterdecide Change image and share on social