September 8: Rachel Kushner—Creation Lake

Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Rachel Kushner in conversation with Hua Hsu to discuss her new book Creation Lake (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

This event will take place in person at Paula Cooper Gallery at 534 West 21st Street on Sunday, September 8th at 4:00 PM ET. The event is free, with no reserved seating. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login or RSVP required. A recording will be archived.

Books will be available for sale after the conversation.

Rachel Kushner—Creation Lake (Published by Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

The First Creation Lake Event in NYC!

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.

Photo courtesy of Chloe Aftel

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.

Photo courtesy of Alex Hodor-Lee

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Stay True. He teaches at Bard College and publishes Suspended in Time, a series of zines about music and life.