The Hard Crowd

'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart' Olivia Laing

'Wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout' Vogue

'An exciting book... Kushner writes from the inside out and gives us the true story, the real deal' Kevin Barry, New Statesman, Books of the Year

The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout. - Vogue

One of America's most exciting writers . . . A brilliant collection of art and literary criticism, reportage, and autobiography. - Daily Telegraph

She writes as well as any writer alive about the pleasure of a good motor doing what it was designed to do . . . Cool and wise, with real power and control . . . This book has a real gallery of souls . . . As strong a statement about artistic purpose and sensibility as I've read in a while. - Dwight Garner, New York Times

She seems to work with a muse and a nail gun, so surprisingly yet forcefully do her sentences pin reality to the page. - Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine

I honestly don't know how she is able to know so much (about motorcycle racing, Italian radical politics) and convey all of it in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way. - George Saunders