#creation lake

[fairy--bread]

experiencing reading-for-fun paralysis

[dk-thrive]

For all its fame, rosy-finger dawn leaves no prints.

— Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (Scribner, September 3, 2024)

[theblackestofsuns]

Jérôme Berthier's illustration for Alexandra Schwartz's review of Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake in this week's New Yorker magazine.

[serenewahine]

"The trick of riding backward is to understand that this orientation of travel is time-honored and classical. It is like rowing a boat: you enter the future backwards, while watching scenes of the past recede."

-- Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

[nonbinary-jakey]

when you realize sadie saying "i have retired to priest valley" is her way of acknowledging she has retreated to a mythical past--albeit one of her own devising--much like bruno retreats to his cave away from modern society

[theplanetjeep]

Creation Lake was just a huge nothingburger of a book for me. It was trying so hard to be profound, be smart, that it looped around to being inane garbage of which the most artistic aspect is the cover design.

[theplanetjeep]

Just finished reading Creation Lake and like... it was a book I guess. Very literary, very smart, very profound or whatever. Did I enjoy it? Not really. Mostly I was waiting for it to be over, reading out of the obligation of having actually paid for it.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Creation Lake | Author: Rachel Kushner | Publisher: Scribner (2024)