Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A discussion about Rachel Kushner's electrifying new book.
Filmed on 8/1/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
Rachel Kushner’s "Creation Lake", Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, is a darkly funny and propulsive noir about an American woman infiltrating a French anarchist collective. Seduction, deceit, and power collide in this dazzling tale of strategy and desire.
About the speakers:
Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels "Creation Lake", "The Mars Room", "The Flamethrowers", and "Telex from Cuba", a book of short stories, "The Strange Case Of Rachel K", and "The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020". She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine.
Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A discussion about Rachel Kushner's electrifying new book.
Filmed on 8/1/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
Rachel Kushner’s "Creation Lake", Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, is a darkly funny and propulsive noir about an American woman infiltrating a French anarchist collective. Seduction, deceit, and power collide in this dazzling tale of strategy and desire.
About the speakers:
Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels "Creation Lake", "The Mars Room", "The Flamethrowers", and "Telex from Cuba", a book of short stories, "The Strange Case Of Rachel K", and "The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020". She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine.
Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
