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Incandescent

Revisado: 12-09-24

I didn’t love the narration (by the author) at first, but after half an hour or so it started to feel like the comfortably tense intimacy of an author reading in the upstairs of a little bookshop. The rhythms of the writing and the voice suit each other perfectly, how could they not?

Rachel Kushner is an astonishingly good stylist, and that’s as true here as it is in her novels. The prose is flat, even, objective, and precise—most journalistic. But there is always a sense of burning love and strongly held conviction holding up the carefully controlled even tone.

The highlights for me were Not With The Band and The Hard Crowd. I love places because I love Place, and these essays are in competition mostly with Dubliners for the best short-form evocation of Place and Time. In this case the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s.

I’m glad she became a novelist, but she would have been an incredible critic or journalist had she chosen.

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