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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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Oprah.com, April 19, 2013
...twin braids tucked into her leathers, heads east on a 650 bullet bike the color of metal-flake teal. Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers (Scribner) is the saga of an electric young woman's full-throttle pursuit of love amid the class war and cultural...
Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2013
...Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid, Marisa Silver, Mona Simpson, Robin Sloan, Francesca Lia Block, Pico Iyer, Rachel Kushner, Dana Gioia, Luis Rodriguez, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Fountain, Hope Larsen, George Dyson, Atticka Locke, Lauren...
Christian Science Monitor, April 18, 2013
...herself. All three main characters in this week's fiction roundup are unforgettable. Art and anarchy combust in Rachel Kushner's edgy, 1970s-set novel The Flamethrowers. “There's a false idea that accidents happen in slow motion,” says the narrator,...
Modesto Bee, April 17, 2013
..."You just seemed too young," an artist-provocateur named Ronnie tells her late in the book, after she's found her way to what feels like if not quite a resolution then a denouement. "And you were. But honestly I don't even know if you'd be different...
New York Times, April 16, 2013
...Rachel Kushners second novel, The Flamethrowers, unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember. It plays out as if on Imax, or simply higher-grade film stock. In part this is a function of the novels unfamiliar...
Oregonian, April 16, 2013
...and Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," the fiction winner. Ebershoff also is a novelist. Rachel Kushner, who grew up in Eugene and is the author of two excellent novels, "Telex From Cuba" and "The Flamethrowers," recently talked to the Los...
Vogue.com, April 16, 2013
...“The seventies seemed like this really open time,” says Rachel Kushner, discussing her exhilarating new novel, The Flamethrowers (Scribner). “There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.” ...
Marin Independent Journal, April 7, 2013
...Melanie Benjamin 7. "Accursed" by Joyce Carol Oates 8. "Fever" by Mary Beth Keane 9. "The Flamethrowers" by Rachel Kushner 10. "The Paris Affair" by Teresa Grant Marin nonfiction 1. "The Longevity Kitchen" by Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson 2. "The...
Marin Independent Journal, April 7, 2013
...m. April 10: Ana Homayoun discusses "The Myth of the Perfect Girl." 7 p.m. April 11: Rachel Kushner discusses "The Flamethrowers." 7 p.m. April 12: Glennon Melton discusses "Carry on Warrior." 1 p.m. April 13: Thomas McNamee discusses "The Man Who...
Seacoast Online, April 7, 2013
...are four books that I'm awaiting: a preview of the writes of spring. April 2: "The Flamethrowers" Rachel Kushner Scribner Rachel Kushner's first novel, "Telex From Cuba," was a sensation: Set in the years before the Cuban revolution, it was a...
Portsmouth Herald, April 7, 2013
...are four books that I'm awaiting: a preview of the writes of spring. April 2: "The Flamethrowers" Rachel Kushner Scribner Rachel Kushner's first novel, "Telex From Cuba," was a sensation: Set in the years before the Cuban revolution, it was a...
Hampton Union, April 7, 2013
...are four books that I'm awaiting: a preview of the writes of spring. April 2: "The Flamethrowers" Rachel Kushner Scribner Rachel Kushner's first novel, "Telex From Cuba," was a sensation: Set in the years before the Cuban revolution, it was a...
Foxboro Reporter, April 5, 2013
...Soffer, "Paris: The Novel" by Edward Rutherfurd, "The Morels" by Christopher Hack, and "The Flamethrowers: A Novel" by Rachel Kushner. Story programs Winter Session of Story Time and Mother Goose on the Loose come to a close this week. Spring...
The Atlantic Wire, April 4, 2013
...down on the bone ankle of a roe deer in the fifth century." LITERARY LOVELIES The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner. (Scribner, April 2).  Kushner on the SoHo art scene and Italy's radical '70s ! "Because it's New York in the 1970s, art world,...