Louisa Kasza

Guest writer

Louisa Kasza is a publisher and former bookseller living in Auckland. She has contributed as a music reviewer to Under the Radar and Volume, but now realises that she should stick to what she knows, which is books. Louisa was born in Wellington in 1989.

Joan Didion, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers – and now Rachel Kushner, author of a powerful new US novel

Joan Didion, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers – and now Rachel Kushner, author of a powerful new US novel

Louisa Kasza reviews Rachel Kushner's novel The Mars Room, which features in this week's New Yorker as one of America's best new books.

By Louisa Kasza | 26th June, 2018

Book of the Week: Drag queens, Chanel suits, and sprawling prose

Book of the Week: Drag queens, Chanel suits, and sprawling prose

Louisa Kasza reviews a bright, expansive novel that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the New York drag queen scene of the 1980s.

By Louisa Kasza | 3rd May, 2018

Book of the Week: the best novel of 2017 is by a millennial blessed with ‘terrifying talent’

Book of the Week: the best novel of 2017 is by a millennial blessed with ‘terrifying talent’

Louisa Kasza celebrates the arrival of a "terrifying talent" - Annaleese Jochems, the young author of a novel about an Auckland princess who falls in lust with a gorgeous woman fitness instructor.

By Louisa Kasza | 14th September, 2017

<> 8th annual Paper Magazine Nightlife awards at Webster Hall on October 10, 2012 in New York City.

Book of the week: How To Murder Your Life, by Cat Marnell

Louisa Kasza reviews the full-on memoir by former beauty editor and fulltime drug addict Cat Marnell.

By Louisa Kasza | 1st June, 2017