Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels Creation Lake, The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex From Cuba. She is also the author of The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 and The Strange Case of Rachel K, a book of early short prose pieces.
She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Folio Prize, James Tait Black Prize, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages.
Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and her nonfiction in Harper’s and New York Times Magazine.
selected bibliography
Creation Lake (2024)
The Mars Room (2018)
The Flamethrowers (2013)
Telex From Cuba: A Novel (2008)
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online resources
Video: Kushner talks about Creation Lake with the Toronto Public Library