15. Rachel Kushner in Conversation

Author of The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, and The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner envelops you with exhilarating, propulsive prose and characters whose worlds you feel lucky to glimpse—however difficult those worlds may be. Creation Lake is no different, billed as Kushner’s “finest achievement yet as a novelist.” It’s a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure in which protagonist Sadie lives both in rural, pastoral France and in a shadowy web of provocation on behalf of secretive business and government figures. The two-time National Book Award finalist and Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author will tell us more about this fascinating conceit, unlikely feminist characters, and the interconnected webs of art and politics. Moderated by Alix Ohlin.

Presented in partnership with Simon & Schuster Canada and The Polygon Gallery.

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Rachel Kushner

RACHEL KUSHNER is the author of Creation Lake, The Hard Crowd, and The Mars Room. She has won the Prix Médicis, was a finalist for the Booker Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Rachel is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

Alix Ohlin

ALIX OHLIN is the author of six books of fiction, most recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Walrus, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She teaches fiction and climate writing at UBC.