“I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.”

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.