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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Eugene
Oregon
Thing
Made
Men
Combination
Curious
Machines
Funny
Women

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I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.
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My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
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I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
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Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.
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I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.
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I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.
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Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
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