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âI finally found a use for Facebookâ: Rachel Kushner. Photograph: Barry J Holmes
âI finally found a use for Facebookâ: Rachel Kushner. Photograph: Barry J Holmes
The acclaimed essayist and novelist on the genius of Don DeLillo, the temptation of motorbikes, and being swept away by CocoRosie
Sat 17 Apr 2021 10.00 EDT
Born in Eugene, Oregon in 1968, writer Rachel Kushner studied political economy at UC Berkeley and earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She published her first novel,
Telex from Cuba, in 2008, followed in 2013 by
The Flamethrowers; her third novel,
The Mars Room,
was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2018. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Her latest book,
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The trouble with being cool is that you have to make it look natural, effortless, almost accidental, and maybe inevitable. It isn’t a simple matter of the interests you’ve cultivated, the freewheeling eccentrics you’ve assembled as a tribe, the life you’ve lived, and the stories you can tell about it. Just as the Renaissance courtier had his sprezzatura, the modern badass must maintain an air of grace and nonchalance, never letting show the glue and cardboard and twine holding together the sturdy leatherbound edifice. And so, writing about being cool is often the riskiest enterprise of all. Reading the result can be like stumbling upon James Gatz’s self-improvement action plan (“Practice elocution, poise, and how to obtain it 5.00-6.00”) and realizing how much awfully self-conscious effort goes into the process of self-invention.
(2018), wrote the essay in question, “Girl on a Motorcycle,” in 2001 for an anthology titled She’s a Bad Motorcycle: Writers on Riding
. Describing her first bike, a 500cc Moto Guzzi, Kushner’s voice has all the confidence, wisdom, and cool of her later work. “Motorcycles didn’t enter my own life as gifts from men or ways to travel to men,” Kushner asserts, “but as machines to be ridden.” The piece goes on to describe something called the Cabo 1000, an illegal and dangerous thousand-mile motorcycle race on the Baja California peninsula, much of which takes place on dirt roads that weave precipitously through desert mountains. Kushner participated in the race when she was twenty-four, the age I am now.
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