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The speaker is saying that how a story is told depends mainly on its tone. They see tone as something hard to explain or control: either it is present, or it is not.
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About Rachel Kushner
American writer
Rachel Kushner is an American writer known for her novels Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room, and Creation Lake. Her fiction includes Telex from Cuba, published in 2008, The Flamethrowers, published in 2013, The Mars Room, published in 2018, and Creation Lake, published in 2024. These works established her reputation as a novelist whose name is closely tied to contemporary American fiction.
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Books by Rachel Kushner
The Mars Room
2018
The flamethrowers
2014
Telex from Cuba
2008
The Hard Crowd
2021