Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake”
Tuesday, September 3
Doors: 7:30pm
Reading: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Skylight Books and the Poetic Research Bureau present the Los Angeles launch of Rachel Kushner's new novel, Creation Lake. Following the reading, artist and musician Kim Gordon will join Rachel in conversation about the new novel, and the evening will be hosted by Semiotext(e) editor Hedi El Kholti.
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From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor.
Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France.
Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner’s finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.
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Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.
Kim Gordon is a visual artist and a founding member of the post punk experimental rock band Sonic Youth. Her new solo album, The Collective, is out now.
Hedi El Kholti is a co-editor at Semiotext(e), alongside Chris Kraus, where he created the publication Animal Shelter, an occasional journal of art, sex, and literature and the Intervention Series.