About Kate Christensen:
Kate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her previous novels are In the Drink (1999), Jeremy Thrane (2001), and The Epicure's Lament (2004). Her fifth novel, Trouble (2009), was released in paperback by Vintage/Anchor in June 2010. Her sixth novel, The Astral, was published in hardcover by Doubleday in June 2011. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, "Blue Plate Special" (Doubleday, 2013) and "How to Cook a Moose," forthcoming from Islandport Press in September 2015.
It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.
Kate Christensen