Kate Christensen

A NovelJosie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter. Raquel is a Los Angeles rock star with a platinum album and the attendant money and fame. When Josie realizes her marriage is over, and Raquel finds herself at the center of a scandal, these old friends take off for Mexico City where sweltering...

A NovelFrom the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn. The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that Oscar is also survived by his...

Hugo Whittierfailed poet and former kept manis a wily misanthrope with a taste  for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will  be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family's  dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting...

A NovelCombining sly humor with an urban edge, Kate Christensen's In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale.The novel's heroine is the smart, pretty, underemployed, and single Claudia Steiner, personal secretary to Genevieve del Castellano, a...

A NovelFrom the author of the highly acclaimed In the Drink, a smart and sexy exploration of New York and its customs through the eyes of a disillusioned, yet secretly hopeful, gay man.  Jeremy Thrane is a thirty-five-year-old writer in love with a married man. For years, Jeremy has posed as "e;archivist"e; to Ted...