雷切尔·库什纳是一位美国作家，以她的小说《古巴电传》、《火焰喷射器》和《火星室》而闻名。她住在洛杉矶。
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
70年代末是美国制造业时代的终结。这也是图片一代艺术家起步的时候。他们采用了广告语言。工厂消失了，奇怪的是，艺术品也消失了——那是一个做手势的时代，而不是一个制作物品的时代。
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
我不是听音乐写的，在某种程度上，任何一个作家都应该解释为什么不，这似乎很愚蠢，因为这可能和说你不吃美食或打网球，而你在键盘上没有什么不同。
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
我很喜欢波德莱尔的句子。我经常反复读他。
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
我很犹豫是否能登上老兵的宝座。所以我不知道我是谁来警告这位年轻作家未来的危险。我认为最危险的影响可能是认为你有所有的答案，应该给建议。
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
我是一个善良的人；我没有虚无主义的倾向，但我对那种幽默感有反应。
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
我不是从我想在书中包括的历史场景列表开始的。在某一点上，叙事完全占据了主导地位，而我所包含的一切，只有符合小说的内在条件，我才能融入其中。
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
当一个人是那种关心特定历史背景意义的作家时，历史本身就不是我所说的背景。对于一段关于爱和背叛的永恒的关系来说，这不是粉饰。对我来说，故事的背景和具体的历史是与我共同努力形成这部小说的积极因素。
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
我一直想在小说中加入图像，在我的第一本书《古巴电传》中，我制作了一个精心制作的网站，基本上都是图像。