*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* From the Booker-shortlisted
author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of
spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner is a
writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct'
(John Powers, Fresh Air). In The Hard Crowd, she 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 terrain that underpin her fiction. In nineteen
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,
phosphorescently vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to
witness the evolution and range of one of the world's most dazzling
and fearless writers. 'An exciting book... she writes from the
inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal.' Kevin
Barry, New Statesman 'Books of the year' 2021
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