Scott Timberg talks with Rachel Kushner, whose novel, Telex From Cuba, “depicts the society’s upheaval through the eyes of children who lived it.”
'It became a treasure hunt in a way: There are no public libraries of any kind in Preston or Nicaro,’ the towns where the novel was set. ‘But I would hear a rumor, like 'so-and-so has every copy of the United Fruit Co. magazine,' and I would show up with this little entourage and knock on their door.’ – from “Breathing Literary Life Into 1950s Cuba,” by Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times