#boris kachka

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Hothouse, Boris Kachka (F, 20s, Strand bookmark in book, Nikes, pink shirt, tote bag, F Train)

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Colson Whitehead sits down with Boris Kachka at Vulture to discuss The Underground Railroad, Ferguson, and coming of age in New York City. You could also read our review of Whitehead’s Zone One.

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8 Books You Need to Read This April

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Molly Prentiss, Igort, and more.

“If rock celebrities are projections of their fans’ fears and desires, then what Tussing has done in his second novel — about an enigmatic old-timer who bears traces of Dylan and Springsteen — is turn the projector around. With a perfect ear and a dry tongue, Tussing nails the ragged star Jimmy Cross and his populist poetry, but his central subjects are two men who become entangled with his never-ending tour. Peter is a lonely doctor embedded on the bus, Pennyman a fan-blogger who’s forsaken his own life to stalk Cross’s. Their stories converge with a sweetness that feels earned.”

Boris Kachka picks Vexation Lullaby by Justin Tussing as one of his choices for “8 Books You Need to Read This April.”

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The boundaries of the culture were shifting, and literary borders cracking and reforming right along with them. Even in times of great stability, and even in industries that don't need to adapt as quickly as publishing to cultural changes, the fact remains that generations must be replenished. Every book house needs to pump new blood continuously; hungry, young new editors must rise up beneath those advancing towards complacency, and eventually displace them.

Boris Kachka, Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus & Giroux

My publishing friends are so wonderful and impressive. Look out, literary world.

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"I do not have experiences in order to write about them. I live in order to live,” Rachel Kushner told New York Magazine. Boris Kachka profiles 2013's most critically acclaimed author and 2013 Year in Reading participant about what it was like to grow up with hippie parents, riding motorcycles, and her affinity for the art world.

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“Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer.”

Rachel Kushner

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On Tuesday, December 10 from 8 to 10 pm, come to 2A in the East Village, to the Big Umbrella (non-fiction) reading series, where Boris Kachka (Hothouse), Evan Hughes (Literary Brooklyn) and I (Wordbirds) will read from our books about the spills and chills of the writer's life. Hosted by Emily Wunderlich, $4 whiskey cocktails throughout the evening. Open to the public.

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"Bob, a book needs every support it can get and if you, the editor, like it, it starts out with one real friend. That's important. And that's a good reason never to take on a book if you don't like it."

Donald Brace to Robert Giroux from Boris Kachka's Hothouse:  The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar Straus & Giroux