Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Rachel Kushner talks about the earliest impulses that inspired her first novel Telex from Cuba. She wanted a new concept of time, she needed to find a voice to create that highly subjective and changeable thing--the past.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael Silverblatt. Thanks for tuning in to Bookworm. Some of our most exciting storytellers
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0:43.3	Where would we be without boos? Where would we be without good?
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1:01.2	I have an exciting prospect ahead of me.
1:05.6	It's going to be the first time that we talk to a writer, in this case, Rachel Kushner, about work that she
1:14.9	did before she was officially published in book form. A collection of pieces called the Strange
1:24.0	Case of Rachel K. has been published by New Directions.
1:29.3	They were published in literary magazines?
1:33.1	Yeah, they were.
1:35.1	You know, it's a long time ago now, but one of them was in soft targets,
1:41.8	which I wasn't involved in at the time.
1:43.6	It was the first issue, very small, but kind of densely interesting literary journal, had
1:50.9	a short life.
1:51.9	And then the second issue, I actually became one of the editors of it, but their first
1:56.9	issue one of the pieces was in, and then a Canadian journal called Descan, who they were doing
2:02.2	a Cuba-themed issue. And I knew that I wanted to write a novel that was set in and somehow
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