The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner

Description In The Hard Crowd , Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. Customers Also Liked Related products Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Ms Rachel: A Day on the Farm by Ms Rachel Ms Rachel: 100 First Words by Ms Rachel Ms Rachel: Hide and Seek with Herbie by Ms Rachel And Yet… : Essays by Christopher Hitchens Reviews