AUTHOR BIO

Rachel Kushner lives in Los Angeles and is a coeditor of the literary and art journal Soft Targets. She writes frequently for Artforum and is a contributing editor to Bomb Magazine. TELEX FROM CUBA is her first novel.

She is currently working on a new novel, about the lives of American artists and Italian terrorists in the late-1970s.

Here is a small selection of her other writings: (click to download PDF)

An interview with the artist Marlene McCarty
An Artforum feature on the artist Natalie Djurberg
An Artforum feature on art in Los Angeles, but also Guy Debord, militancy and risk
An Artforum feature on photographer Chris Verene
An Artforum feature on the artist Mindy Shapero
An Artforum feature on the artists Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge
An essay in Cabinet about the boyhood home of Fidel Castro
"Green Island Trinity," included in Descant's "Cuba" issue
Her essay on illegal road racing in Mexico, from the anthology She's a Bad Motorcycle (Thunder's Mouth, 2002)