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There’s a minor character that appears in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, one of many artists the novel depicts. But the woman—Giddle, as she’s called—is nothing so recognizable as a sculptor or filmmaker. Rather, her art consists of taking a job as a waitress and becoming “a girl working in a diner, glancing out the windows as she cleaned the counter in small circles with a damp rag.” A cousin to the fictional Giddle is the real-life Johnny Sherrill, a friend of Kushner’s parents who she describes in her essay “Tramping In The Byways” as an “itinerant carouser, jok...

10 New Books We Recommend This Week April 15, 2021 Some readers are waiting for the next installment in Robert Caro’s multivolume Lyndon Johnson biography as avidly as George R. R. Martin fans eager for “The Winds of Winter” to arrive at last. (Some, I suppose, are at the edge of their seats waiting for both.) If you are among them, why not bide your time with Julia Sweig’s substantial new biography of Johnson’s wife, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”? Our reviewer, Mimi Swartz, calls it “a book in the Caro mold,” telling the story of America through its subject. Th...

(2018), wrote the essay in question, “Girl on a Motorcycle,” in 2001 for an anthology titled She’s a Bad Motorcycle: Writers on Riding . Describing her first bike, a 500cc Moto Guzzi, Kushner’s voice has all the confidence, wisdom, and cool of her later work. “Motorcycles didn’t enter my own life as gifts from men or ways to travel to men,” Kushner asserts, “but as machines to be ridden.” The piece goes on to describe something called the Cabo 1000, an illegal and dangerous thousand-mile motorcycle race on the Baja California peninsula, much of which takes place on dirt roa...

6 book recommendations from Rachel Kushner The Week Staff Today's best articles Daily business briefing magazine named one of the 21st century's new classics. Her new essay collection, The Hard Crowd , compiles 20 years of journalism and criticism. Ditlevsen was a 20th-century Danish writer who died by her own hand. Her trilogy of short memoirs, Childhood, Youth, and Dependency, is becoming the subject of a literary craze. As soon as you sink your teeth in, you'll understand why. The books are riveting. The problem is they bite back. I'm stil...

The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner. This is also a collection of essays, by the National Book Award and Booker Prize finalist, spanning the years 2000 to 2020. Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey. Oprah Winfrey says that this is one of the most anticipated books of the year, and you should always listen to Oprah. International Thieves Are Stealing Legos, for Some Reason This could be the plot of Ocean’s 14 (it would be a Lego movie, of course). The Muppets, Ranked I don’t want to get into a big debate here, but I was reading this list from NPR listeners of the 25 best Muppets and I ...