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Rachel Kushner

(b.1968)

Rachel Kushner is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers. She lives in Los Angeles.One of her influences is the American novelist Don DeLillo.

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction

Novels

   Telex from Cuba (2008)
   The Flamethrowers (2013)
   The Mars Room (2018)
   Creation Lake (2024)

Collections

The Strange Case of Rachel K (2015)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Mayor of Leipzig (2021)

Series contributed to

Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Rachel Kushner

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

Award nominations

	2024 National Book Award for Fiction (longlist) : Creation Lake
	2024 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Creation Lake
	2019 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : The Mars Room
	2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Mars Room
	2018 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Mars Room
	2014 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Flamethrowers
	2013 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : The Flamethrowers
	2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The Flamethrowers
	2008 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner recommends

Audition (2025)
Katie Kitamura
"Katie Kitamura is a dizzyingly skilled writer whose fictions always seem to manage two contradictory effects: a supple seductive surface, under which the chaos of minds and repressed realities roil. She's an original, building an entire metier of her own."

Denial (2022)
Jon Raymond
"The future is so painful to think about, and yet I was totally hooked into Jon Raymond's rendition of it in Denial, set in 2052: a world with new-fangled exhaustless cars but old philosophical quandaries, and older rituals: the bullfight, the scapegoat, the love interest. I blew through this book too quickly, but will be thinking about it for a long time to come."

Trust (2022)
Hernán Diaz
"Diaz understands, and deeply, how strange money is, as an omnipotent and imaginary substance that controls our lives. Trust glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery. Its plotlines are as etched and surreal as Art Deco geometry, while inside that architecture are people who feel appallingly real. This novel is very classical and very original: Balzac would be proud, but so would Borges."

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