Rachel Cusk

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welcome back to feedback where the streets are talking and they're talking about natalie portman and that's because of life of m the latest novel by rachel cusk the queen of auto fiction but don't call her that because she hates the term auto fiction word on the street is her new book is actually a scathing takedown of her friend natalie portman now I read Life of M as soon as I could, and I'm here to tell you what this book is really about.

One thing it's not about? Miss Natalie Portman.

I mean, not really.

But in actuality, The depiction of M takes about one third of the goddamn novel.

So to quote Oprah talking to James Fry, I feel duped.

This novel reads like Condé Nast Traveler, okay? The rooms Rachel Cusk is in, she's describing them in excruciating detail.

The restaurants, the boardrooms, the hotels, the yachts, the girl, I was bored.

Her child has arrived.

I think that's all I know, but it reminded me that I did read the Rachel Cusk novel.

How was it?

And I wanted to t- talk with you about it.

[laughs]

I think-

So the Rachel Cusk-

I think barrier is high for me.

I am also someone who has been waiting absolutely with bated breath for this book to land in my hands.

I'm a huge fan of Rachel Cusk, um, n- not initially.

I mean, I actually started reading the Outline Trilogy, and I was like, "I don't get it.

I don't understand what all this fuss is about." And then I got a little deeper into the trilogy, and I was like, "Wait a minute, she is doing something radical." I then did that thing where I started at the beginning and I read everything, not, not everything, everything, but almost everything that she has written, and I'm pretty astonished by the whole entire thing.

this, this sense of, like, how do we define self, and how does someone define self when they're absolutely, you know, the, the property of the American public, I just kept thinking, "It is hard enough to have a sense of self and a cohesive sense of self, and to feel good about your sense of self and how you operate in the world as a normal person." I just...

I, I, I found myself very sympathetic to th- this person who was at the center, this character at the center of, of this novel.

My other takeaway is that I really think that Rachel Cusk is, like, depressed.

Speaking as someone who has had chronic, like, moderate depression practically her whole life, I was like, "Babe, you are looking at things through a very, very dark lens here," and I get it.