- Reading Guide
- Kate's website
- Behind Every Great Man . . . - washingtonpost.com : Kate Christensen has won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for her novel "The Great Man," whose ironic title refers to a recently deceased painter but whose focus is on the women in his life.
- Recipes from The Great Man
- Tefillin
- Tefillin - (Wikipedia)
- Tefillin - Video
Reviews
- NYTimes Review
- Review | The Great Man by Kate Christensen
- The Great Man:: review AARP
- An Art World Novel Lays It on Thick: Ex-Wives and Aging Mistresses | NY Observer
- Book Review & Book Club Discussion ~ The Great Man by Kate Christensen « Planet Books
- Kate Christensen : The Great Man : Book Review
- Commentary » Blog Archive » Bookshelf
- January Magazine review
- Kate's review of Roth's THE HUMBLING:: The whole reason I ever heard of Kate Christensen is because after I read THE HUMBLING by Roth and didn’t like it, she was the only one who wrote what I was thinking.... right here. So I thought anyone who agreed with me on this might be interesting to read. And is she ever.
- Vroman's review
- Amazon reviews
Interviews
- Attenberg & Christensen talk common themes : Maud Newton
- Kate Christensen Books | The Author Interview
- Kate Christensen on Winning the PEN/Faulkner award - The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.
- Powell's Q&A - Kate Christensen :: Describe your latest project. The Great Man is not really about a Great Man. The title is ironic and deliberately misleading. It's a novel about four women in their seventies and eighties,...
- Salon.com Books | Sex and the (fortysomething) single girl
- PaperMag interview
Audio
- Kate Christensen : The Bat Segundo Show (podcast / audio)
- The Woman Behind 'The Great Man' : NPR Audio :: Kate Christensen won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel, The Great Man: she is only the 5th woman to receive the award.
- 'Consider the Oyster' a Peerless Summer Delicacy : NPR audio
Magazines
Images
- Modern nude portraits - Bing Images
- Modern portraits nude - Google Search
- Abstract expressionism - Google Images
- Conceptual art - Google Images (p.114)
- Red Grooms - Google Images (p.114)
- Duane Hanson sculpture - Google Images (p.114)
- Ed Kienholz - Google Images (p.114)
- H. C. Westermann - Google Images (p.114)
- The Sperm lady
- The British Jordan McKenzie:: Sperm Art: He Paints Using His Semen! (p. 289)
5 comments:
I'd have loved for you to be listening in last Thursday when so many members disliked Great Man, or found it totally light, and chick lit... I think two of us said "very good"...and here I went and read two other things by her and I'm still in love w/ her work. . .someone said - "When there are great books to read, like Allende, why would we read this silly chick lit book" - which also brought out alot of anger at men using women. . . .ain't it grand how folks can disagree about books, etc! makes it fun.
Some of us thought the book was "chic lit", "ordinary", and just "a good beach read". Others just loved the book and the four women characters. Nobody liked Oscar. So we had a good discussion with pros and cons.
It was a good read and I think Michael Leonard ("Curled Up with A Good Book") summed it up: "author's strength is in her ability to present fully fleshed and flawed characters while also inbuing them with such witty and sardonic intelligence that it is impossible not to admire them even they are not particularly likeable."
I am so looking forward to this month's meeting. I rarely fall this hard for an author but now have read "The Trouble" and "Epicure's Lament" and would read anything else by Christensen I can find. Don't know when I've enjoyed the process of reading quite so much. . .and the food. . . .yummm. . .
One member felt Maxine was the only fulfilled person because she had a career. The others were, in Helen's view, whiny and living in the past, not having any regrets because they never moved on. We all wondered if the fact that Abigail's son had autism had any significance. Am not sure who Max is and asked her to elaborate.
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