Short Reads
Food Writing
Bouffe (Frenchly)
Hungry Eye #1 (Portland Monthly)
Hungry Eye #2 (Portland Monthly)
Down East Maine Foods: Game Meat (Down East Magazine)
Down East Maine Foods: Chowder (Down East Magazine)
The Mystery of the Lost Kitchen (Maine Women Magazine
Story Land (Maine Homes)
Summer Loves (Portland Monthly)
When There’s Nothing in the Fridge, We Go To Hot Suppa (Bon Appetit)
Maine Writer Kate Christensen Delves into a Fresh Start Farms CSA Share
Come Here Often? Kate Christensen on Her Favorite Bar in Portland, Maine (Electric Lit)
“With a Twist” — occasional cocktail in-briefs with original recipes for the Wall Street Journal:
- Cold Comfort: The Panacea Cocktail
- Cold-Snap Cocktail: The Moscow Moose
- A Newfangled Old-Fashioned Cocktail
- Darker and Stormier
- Mimosa Makeover
- A Hotter Toddy
Surprisingly Simple Ways to Become a Better Cook (Men’s Journal)
Holidays Abroad: Kate Christensen’s Thanksgiving in Tuscany (Feed Your Need to Read)
Writer Kate Christensen Prefers Her Oranges Plucked Right Off the Tree (Grub Street)
Beyond Paleo: Is Eating Like a Viking the Next It Diet? (Vogue)
“Consider the Oyster” (NPR)
My Best Meal: Oysters in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, France (Conde Nast Traveler)
How to Cook a Clam (The New York Times)
Essays from the “Food Stuff” section of Medium:
How This Chef Heals the World – One Plate at a Time (Forward)
The Heartbreaking Story Behind the Lost Kitchen, an Incredible New Restaurant in Freedom, Maine (Food & Wine)
Midday Malaise (Bookforum)
Cheap Eats (Bookforum)
Welcome-Home Beef Pho (The Wall Street Journal)
Author Kate Christensen on the Joys of Dining Alone (The Wall Street Journal)
Kate Christensen on “swashbuckling, earthy, fearless” M.F.K. Fisher (Reader’s Almanac)
Why You Should Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Good Friends and Better Food (Oprah)
About My Work
Kate Christensen shares the secret of ‘Arizona Triangle’ author Sydney Graves (The Sun)
Sydney Graves: An increasingly dark, dangerous web woven by an unknown psychopath (Fresh Fiction)
Q&A with Sydney Graves (Campaign for the American Reader)
Sydney Graves: I Was Surprised by How Dark It Got at the End (Writer’s Digest)
Q&A with Sydney Graves (Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb)
Sydney Graves Presents “The Arizona Triangle” (Mystery and Thriller Mavens)
How to properly murder someone (on paper) with Kate Christensen (Writers, Ink Podcast)
We Can’t Go Home Again (Reed Magazine)
Kate Christensen talks with Authorlink (video)
What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties (Lit Hub)
‘I Don’t Know a Character Until I Know How They Eat’ (Los Angeles Times)
Kate Christensen – Welcome Home, Stranger (Page One Podcast)
Finding Your Voice as a Writer (KN Literary Arts)
The Art of Disappearing (Statement of Record)
There’s a machine in my head that takes an experience and transforms it (I’ve Got a Feeling)
Kate Christensen, Author (Sandi Klein Show)
Why Does The Last Cruise End That Way? (Sandi Klein Show)
Chick Lit For The Smart Set (Daily Beast)
Life and Literature
The Place of Murder (CrimeReads)
What Makes Me Happy Now: Not Drinking (The Guardian)
Five acclaimed Maine authors discuss their Starfish Writers Group and the benefits of collaborative creativity (Maine Calling)
Reaching Dry Land (Decor Maine)
Love in France: The Peach Pie (Frenchly)
The Money Pit (Maine Homes)
I Didn’t Know How to Say Goodbye to My Beloved Dog (Dame Magazine)
Kate Christensen’s favorite food scenes in fiction (The Week)
Kate Christensen: 5 Batshit-Crazy Books About White Men Mucking About in Boats (Book Marks)
How to Create the Perfect Storm in a Novel: A Recipe (Signature)
Summer Reading List: Author’s Picks (Time)
An Artist’s Life: Tough, Toilsome, and Tiring Times (NPR)
Grand Teton National Park: Truth in Beauty (The New York Times)
Take It Like A Man (Elle)
Playing the Fool in Mexico (The Wall Street Journal)
A Long Forgotten Sex Crime Held My Life Hostage (Elle)
Loser Lit (Salon)
Interviews - Memoir
Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir” (Nieman Storyboard)
Winner of the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir – brief interview
Q&A with “How to Cook a Moose” Author Kate Christensen (Islandport Press)
Kate Christensen talks about How To Cook a Moose, goals for urbanites, foods she would never eat and so much more (CarolineLeavittville)
Kate Christensen: The TNB Interview (The Nervous Breakdown)
Excerpt of How To Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, by Kate Christensen (The Nervous Breakdown)
Surprisingly Simple Ways to Become a Better Cook (The Men’s Journal)
Why Portland, Maine, Is the New Portlandia (Yahoo! Travel)
Potato Chips and Red Wine Are Sublime Together (Zocalo Public Square)
Readings and thoughts from Maine’s own, Kate Christensen (The Bates Student)
Blue Plate Special: A foodcentric autobiography (About Harvest)
Kate Christensen talks about Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, how being happy has changed her writing, why you can’t tell the whole truth, and so much more (CarolineLeavittville)
‘Blue Plate Special’: A Generous Helping of Life (NPR, Fresh Air – audio)
An Autobiography of Appetites: Kate Christensen’s ‘Blue Plate Special’ (KUOW – audio)
Unusual Upbringing And The Long, Winding Path To Happiness (WLRN – audio)
The Rumpus Interview with Kate Christensen
Interview with Kate Christensen, Author of ‘Blue Plate Special’ (Bon Appetit)
Spotlight: Kate Christensen on Foodies, Cougars and Making it as a Woman in the Boy’s Club of Serious Literature (Salted Scarletry)
Food, Writing, and the Land of Zenobia: An Interview with Kate Christensen (Barely South Review)
Kate Christensen (The Days of Yore)
Kate Christensen’s Blue Plate Special; Or, “Another Fucking Food Book” (The Hairpin)
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kate Christensen on Food as the Powerful Conduit to Memory (Barnstorm Literary Journal)
Interviews - Fiction
Sydney Graves Presents “The Arizona Triangle” (Mystery and Thriller Mavens)
The Budding Desert Romance (Taos News)
Kate Christensen talks with Authorlink (video)
Kate Christensen Interview (New York Times)
Author Spotlight: Kate Christensen (Zibby Mag)
Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories (Lit Hub)
Writing While Walking (Twice 5 Miles Radio)
The Last Cruise: Author Q & A (Knopf Doubleday)
Falls in Love With Detectives (Boston Globe)
Say As I Do: Kate Christensen (Books & Whatnot)
Musician Nathaniel Bellows Interviews Author Kate Christensen (Largehearted Boy)
There Was No Up or Down: A Conversation with Kate Christensen (Blog // Los Angeles Review of Books)
How can you not adore a person who disapproves of cruises and yet writes an extraordinary novel about one? (Carolineleavittville)
Kate Christensen (The Mainers)
Sweetbitter (Maine Public Radio: Maine Calling – audio)
10-Minute Writer’s Workshop: Kate Christensen (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Talk Shop 7 – Kate Christensen (Talk Shop podcast)
“Failure is Subversive” An Interview with Kate Christensen (Assignment Magazine)
A 2007 Interview With Kate Christensen (Rick Kleffel: Agony Column – audio)
PEN/Faulkner Award Winner: Kate Christensen (Why Waldorf Works)
The Millions Interview: Kate Christensen (The Millions)
Interview with Kate Christensen, author of five novels, including Trouble and The Great Man (Drinking Diaries)
Of Art & Old Ladies (Reed Magazine)
Fictionaut Five: Kate Christensen (Fictionaut)
An interview with Kate Christensen (BookBrowse)
A Mini-Interview with Kate Christensen (Maud Newton)
The Astral: An Interview With Kate Christensen (The Cult)
“In Bed” with Kate Christensen (Good Reads)
Q&A with Kate Christensen author of JEREMY THRANE (BookClubs)
Kate Christensen Interview (OtherPPL – audio)
Book Notes – Kate Christensen (“The Astral”) (Largehearted Boy)
An Interview with Greenpoint Author Kate Christensen (The Greenpoint Gazette)
Male Muses And Inner Dicks: A Conversation With Kate Christensen (The Awl)
A conversation with Kate Christensen, author of ‘The Astral’ (NJ.com)
Nudes, Foods, and Lusty Old Birds (Bookforum)
Sex and the (fortysomething) single girl (Salon)
Kate Christensen: The Beatrice Interview (Beatrice)
Anthologies
Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family
The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes
Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
Come Here Often?: 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop