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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 Picture Book it was immediately hailed asFrom a writer celebrated for her chops, ambition, and killer instinct (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as the most vital and interesting American novelist working today (Michael Lindgren, The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years