On Rachel Kushner's New Yorker Personal History Essay "I prefer memories that stay fragile, vulnerable to erasure, like the soft feel of the velvet couches in Freddy's living room." Rachel Kushner wrote that line in a New Yorker essay, “The Hard Crowd: Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco” (January 18, 2021 issue). I don’t have many photographs from my time in San Francisco in the late ’80s, for the same reason. We were living, not memorializing. It’s strange, then,