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Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, debuted at # 4 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the California Book Award and the Prix Médicis in France. Her previous novel, the Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the year by the New York Times. A book of early short fictions, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2014. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was reviewed...

Deborah Harkness

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Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. She has received Fullbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. She also writes an award-winning wine blog.