"The novel is infecting us back again, so that we expect of our lives what we've come to expect of our books … this sense of life as a progression is something I want no more of."
That sense of negation extends to her art. "I had decided to want nothing at all," she writes, in part, we understand, because of the pain of her failed marriage. It's about Faye, a Rachel Cusk-type writer, teaching in Greece for a summer, and consists mostly of various conversations she has there with students, artists and a Greek businessman. I couldn't get that out of my head as I read "Outline," the new novel by Rachel Cusk.
In the conclusion to an essay he wrote about Aerosmith, the music writer Steven Hyden has a funny, damning line about the band's career: "Aerosmith was a drug-fueled rock band when drug-fueled rock bands were big business, it was a non-drug-fueled rock band when non-drug-fueled rock bands were big business, and now it's barely a rock band when rock is barely in business at all."
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