THE HARD CROWD

I’m incredibly excited to dig into Rachel Kushner’s new book of essays, THE HARD CROWD. While Kushner is best known for her fiction (THE FLAMETHROWERS and THE MARS ROOM), she is equally prolific as a prose writer. Her essays in this book discuss everything from her love of motorcycles and antique muscle cars to prison reform and Palestinian refugees, often coming back to Kushner’s childhood in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco. Her writing is poetic but not self-indulgent, and her observations are incisive without passing too much judgement. 

—Julia Hammer, Creative Executive