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Kate Christensen
American
Novelist
Born:
Aug 22
,
1962
Food
Life
Love
Me
People
You
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
Kate Christensen
Art
Rare
Looking
Rare Thing
Inspiration
Female
Female Artists
Does
Leave
Male
Male Artists
Artists
Where
Thing
Muse
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
Kate Christensen
Dimensions
Superheroes
Emotional
Take
Songs
Powerful
Like
Powers
Influence
Nostalgia
Ordinary
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen
Great
Living
Ghosts
City
Constant
Ongoing
Writers
Had
New
Pilgrimage
Years
Walked
York
New York
New York City
Where
Literary
Lived
Among
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen
Day
Will
Fall
Down
Living
Think
Changes
Ghosts
Inside
Scared
Some
Structure
More
Crumbling
Sort
Effect
Itself
Than
Human
Dying
Happen
Human Body
Ages
Body
Full
Even
Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
Kate Christensen
Sad
Alone
Time
Myself
Conversation
Dinner
Trouble
First
Single
Own
Too
Nurtured
Eating
My Own
Only
Had
Taken
Feel
Freeing
Make
Because
Felt
First Time
Real
Years
Did
Again
Apartment
Should
Many
Cared
I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
Kate Christensen
Life
Myself
Home
Nature
People
Other
Spent
Solitary
Crowd
Through
Writer
Days
Normal
Rode
Walked
Subway
Worked
Co-Workers
Regretted
Working
Working People
Streets
After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.
Kate Christensen
Me
Made
Feeling
Lose
Later
Way
Would
Eating
Weight
Fail
Without
Fix
Diet
Experiences
Wanted
After
Short-Term
Interested
Deprived
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
Kate Christensen
Trees
Collected
Never
Liked
House
Wrote
Read
Boy
Climbed
Dolls
Rocks
Rode
Bike
Played
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
Kate Christensen
You
Reading
Think
Corn
Else
Out
Collection
Pepper
Entirely
Something
Potato
Something Else
Davis
Bag
Like
Piece
Reaching
Beef
Story
Chips
Pulling
Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
Kate Christensen
Half
Sweet
Magical
Tender
Raw
Stuff
Known
Shell
Liquor
Full
Served
Thing
My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
Kate Christensen
Way
Favorite
New
Always
Years
Yorker
Manhattan
New Yorker
Loved
Cook
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen
Work
Morning
Internet
Laundry
See
Answer
Office
Get
Done
Procrastinate
Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
Kate Christensen
Battle
Half
Way
Finding
Always
Novel
I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Kate Christensen
Writing
Envy
Stage
Pedestrian
Pants
Kicks
Rather
Computer
Had
Occupation
Around
Tame
Rock
Always
Leather
Rock Star
Huge
Than
Get
Sitting
Done
Front
Vicariously
Unfortunately
While
Sweaty
Star
Pajamas
Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
Kate Christensen
Marshall
Haunting
Wrenching
Voices
Most
Singer
Female
Male
Current
Any
To taste fully is to live fully.
Kate Christensen
Live
Taste
Fully
In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.
Kate Christensen
Time
You
Try
Long
Somewhere
Long Time
Mouth
Tree
Nut
Once
Eat
Seed
Case
Someone
Determined
Price
Had
Raw
Long Time Ago
Because
Blister
However
Your
Pays
There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
Kate Christensen
You
Nothing
Desserts
Nutty
Only
Gives
Almost
Almost Nothing
Also
Does
Dishes
Lend
Richness
Sweetness
Deep
Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
Kate Christensen
Christmas
Sometimes
Country
Easter
Feast
Baked
Ham
Whole
Served
Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
Kate Christensen
History
People
Had
Until
Although
Been
South
America
Native
Central
Central America
Centuries
Figure
European
Among
Widely
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Kate Christensen
Me
Faithful
Pleasure
Immense
Kind
Gives
Inspires
True
Trustworthy
Romantic
Bond
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.
Kate Christensen
Life
Love
Myself
Age
Happy
Old
Old Age
Happy Life
Living
Settled
Find
Ripe
Someone
Part
Maine
Am
Blog
Very
Celebration
Unexpected
Fifty
Why
Deeply
Portland
Started
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.
Kate Christensen
Halloween
Strangers
Assume
Kids
Dread
One-Night
Scariest
Take
Allowed
Outward
Also
Get
Candy
Forms
Thing
Night
Innermost
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen
Health
Age
People
Edge
Living
Late
Saw
Out
Brooklyn
Given
Compromise
Struggling
Had
Health Insurance
Without
Insurance
Still
Up
Friends
Artist
Move
Artists
Middle
Being
Middle Age
Cushion
Them
Who
Many
Started
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
Kate Christensen
Inside
Never
Outward
Been
Just
Rebel
Deeply
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen
You
Care
Earnest
Rampant
Inventive
Like
Well
Metaphors
Loser
Escalating
Ironic
Lit
Manic
Whether
Them
Flights
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