Tonight: Rachel Kushner reads at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Author Rachel Kushner, who was a surprise National Book Award finalist for her debut novel "Telex From Cuba," reads tonight at the Pasadena Museum of California Art at 7 p.m.

Kushner, who lives in Los Angeles, will appear as part of the museum's Written in California series, and read from the novel that she's currently writing. In an email, she wrote that her book is "in progress, but deep in progress."

Admission to the event is free. The museum's galleries will be open before the reading, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

Photo: Rachel Kushner. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times