Kuskner's second novel, The Flamethrowers, issued in 2013, also received extraordinary praise. It was the cover review of the Jissue of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as a "multi-layered and absorbing" novel whose "sharp observations about human nature and colonialist bias provide a deep understanding of the revolution's causes." It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. Her first novel, Telex from Cuba, was published in July 2008. She is currently an editor of Soft Targets, praised by the New York Times as an "excellent, Brooklyn-based journal of art, fiction and poetry." She has written widely on contemporary art, including numerous features in Artforum. Kushner lived in New York City for 8 years, where she was an editor at Grand Street (magazine) and BOMB (magazine). She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in 2000. She was born in Eugene, Oregon, and moved to San Francisco in 1979. Rachel Kushner a writer who lives in Los Angeles. Currently-lives in Los Angeles, California.
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2013. It “unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel I can remember” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination. At its center is author Rachel Kushner’s superbly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. When they visit Sandro’s family home in Italy, betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in that world-artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo and are blurring the line between life and art.
The year is 1975 and Reno-so-called because of the place of her birth-has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art.
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