People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
Rachel KushnerWhen I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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 Kushner