Books by Kate Christensen

3. Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites .  More a memoir than a food memoir (which is how it is being marketed), the subtitle is thus better than the title.  This is an excellent example of the “read smart books by people who are totally unlike you” principle.  I finished it in one sitting, and it takes a place with The Great Man as one of my two favorite Christensen books.

4. Kate Christensen, The Astral: A Novel .  About marriage, self-deception, and general decay and destruction.  Her best book so far.