THE HARD CROWD

Rachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct' (John Powers, Fresh Air). In The Hard Crowd, sh e gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artis tic, and cultural issues of our times - and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction.In nineteen razor -sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces ...[Read more]