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The Mayor of Leipzig
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The Mayor of Leipzig

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In Rachel Kushner’s latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne–where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig–where she encounters live adult entertainment in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author.

Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig, Kushner writes, I want to let you in on a secret: I personally know the author of this story you’re reading. Because she fancies herself an art world type, a hanger-on. Who would do that voluntarily? I mean, it’s not like someone held a gun to my head and said, Be an artist. I chose it, but I still can’t imagine having anything to do with the art world if you don’t have to. Also, people who don’t make stuff, who instead try to catalogue, periodize, and understand art, they never understand the first thing. Art is about taste, a sense of humor, and most writers lack both.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Karma
Country
United States
Date
30 March 2021
Pages
80
ISBN
9781949172478

In Rachel Kushner’s latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne–where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig–where she encounters live adult entertainment in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author.

Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig, Kushner writes, I want to let you in on a secret: I personally know the author of this story you’re reading. Because she fancies herself an art world type, a hanger-on. Who would do that voluntarily? I mean, it’s not like someone held a gun to my head and said, Be an artist. I chose it, but I still can’t imagine having anything to do with the art world if you don’t have to. Also, people who don’t make stuff, who instead try to catalogue, periodize, and understand art, they never understand the first thing. Art is about taste, a sense of humor, and most writers lack both.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Karma
Country
United States
Date
30 March 2021
Pages
80
ISBN
9781949172478