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Rachel Kushner and Hal Foster: The Hard Crowd
Rachel Kushner and Hal Foster: The Hard Crowd
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62 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2021
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Already well-known for her novels – Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner has over the past two decades been writing essays, reviews and reportage as insightful and surprising as her fiction. In The Hard Crowd (Jonathan Cape) she has selected 19 pieces, covering diverse topics: art, literature, music, politics with essays on Marguerite Duras, Jeff Koons, wildcat strikes, a visit to a Palestinian refugee Camp and the music scene of her hometown San Francisco.She talks about her work with art critic and frequent contributor to the LRB Professor Hal Foster.Buy the books here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Apr 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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