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.
Rachel KushnerSince 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 KushnerI was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
Rachel KushnerI begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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