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 KushnerI was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
Rachel KushnerI guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel KushnerI 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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