I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

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  I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

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  In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the ve

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  Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are par

• Rachel Kushner:

  I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exac

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  I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

• Rachel Kushner:

  I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk ca

• Rachel Kushner:

  'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

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  It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning get

• Rachel Kushner:

  I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

• Rachel Kushner:

  I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to