One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe. Rachel Kushner More Quotes by Rachel Kushner More Quotes From Rachel Kushner You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, "Why don't you try living out here?" So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there. Rachel Kushner writing trying art People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. Rachel Kushner myth narrative people In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones. Rachel Kushner real world ideas Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! Rachel Kushner toss authenticity photograph I don't really see art as structured by logic. Rachel Kushner logic art 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. Rachel Kushner book fiction ideas For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is. Rachel Kushner cracks life-is I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. Rachel Kushner moral-high-ground real claims I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk. Rachel Kushner risk world art I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. Rachel Kushner realms risk art Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think. Rachel Kushner motorcycle agency thinking There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle. Rachel Kushner appeals motorcycle real I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion. Rachel Kushner writing trying fiction 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. Rachel Kushner risk mean thinking People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. Rachel Kushner complicated people The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed. Rachel Kushner smell growing-up kids I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding. Rachel Kushner about know riding motorcycle From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized. Rachel Kushner grit violence midnight beauty The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects. Rachel Kushner age time death art Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps. Rachel Kushner place unique long history
