New American Writing: Rachel Kushner & Salvador Plascencia

Rachel Kushner was an editor at Grand Street and Bomb and now coedits the literary and art journal Soft Targets. A frequent contributor to Artforum, she has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from Columbia University. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, will be published this July. Salvador Plascencia’s novel The People of Paper, has been translated into over half a dozen languages, and his short stories and reviews have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. He was previously an assistant lecturer at The University of Southern California where he taught The Sheridan Baker Thesis Machine. 

A series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design.