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'Coventry' Touches On Gender, Self-Definition In Taking Control Of One's Narrative

September 19, 2019 • In her first essay collection, Rachel Cusk writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity.

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An Epic Conversation Draws To A Close In 'Kudos'

June 5, 2018 • Rachel Cusk's trilogy about a peripatetic writer and her many conversational partners winds up with Kudos. The books are essentially plotless — but there's plenty of joy to be found just in talk.

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'Transit' Is A Journey You Won't Want To End

January 17, 2017 • Rachel Cusk's latest — the second in a trilogy that began with Outline — follows a writer unmoored by the breakup of her marriage, and the people she meets as she goes about her strange new life.

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In 'Outline,' A Series Of Conversations Are Autobiographies In Miniature

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January 29, 2015 • Rachel Cusk's novel centers on a writer and mother recovering from divorce who teaches a summer course in Athens, Greece. The narrator has 10 conversations filled with holes, lies and self-deceptions.

In 'Outline,' A Series Of Conversations Are Autobiographies In Miniature

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There's Nothing Sketchy About This 'Outline'

January 13, 2015 • Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Rachel Cusk, known for her lacerating memoirs, begins to bring her fiction and nonfiction closer together in Outline, an "impressive deepening" of her work.

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Author Interviews

After Silence, An 'Outline' Of A Life In Fragments

January 11, 2015 • Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline reflects the fragmentation of her own life in the story of a writer coming to terms with her dissolving marriage while on a summer teaching trip to Greece.

After Silence, An 'Outline' Of A Life In Fragments

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