Rachel Kushner Among the Hard Crowd

By LARB Radio HourApril 9, 2021

Rachel Kushner Among the Hard Crowd
Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud

Kate and Medaya are joined by Rachel Kushner, author of the novels Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, and The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Award. Kushner’s new book is a collection of essays from the past two decades, The Hard Crowd, which exhibits the inspiring breadth of her interests and influences, which range from motorcycle racing to prison abolition, the Anarcho-Marxist Italian left, rock impresario Bill Graham, the writing of Marguerite Duras, and the people and places of her rough-edged youth in San Francisco.

Also, Jackie Wang, author of The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void, returns to recommend Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea by poet Alice Oswald.

LARB Contributor

The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.

Share

Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?


LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today!