Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place (2021), the Outline trilogy (2014–18), the memoirs A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012), and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.

Rachel Cusk

I’m Only Interested in the Real: A Conversation Between Rachel Cusk and Ira Sachs

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place (2021), the Outline trilogy (2014–18), the memoirs A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012), and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.

Rachel Cusk

Articles

I’m Only Interested in the Real: A Conversation Between Rachel Cusk and Ira Sachs