I started reading G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages. Kate Christensen Read Quote
I realized that I’ve had a really rocky relationship with food – it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast. Kate Christensen Read Quote
My first novel, ‘In the Drink,’ begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been. Kate Christensen Read Quote
I think there’s a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it’s really powerful. I think I’m not alone in this. Kate Christensen Read Quote
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes. Kate Christensen Read Quote
My father’s grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind. Kate Christensen Read Quote
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this. Kate Christensen Read Quote
I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I’ve written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that’s that. Kate Christensen Read Quote
I grew up in an all-female family – two sisters and a mostly single mother – and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them. Kate Christensen Read Quote
