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The Hard Crowd
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A collection of essays that tell excellent stories of a world that is slowly disappearing, in this case, a wild, reckless way of life.
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner is a collection of nineteen essays that span literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature. Kushner takes readers on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of San Francisco. The book includes pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras, and the closing eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing.