Morning sky is gray scattered with clouds, the color of the ocean during a storm. I’ve been dabbling away at small projects this morning with NPR on in the background and heard a delightful interview with Kate Christensen about her latest novel The Great Man which has just won the Penn Faulkner award. The story begins: "Kate Christensen had to kill Oscar Feldman before she could start writing about him. She had no choice.
"He was successful. He got what he wanted in life," she says of the womanizing, larger-than-life artist who inspired the title of her PEN-Faulkner Award-winning novel, The Great Man. "Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me." So Oscar was dead before Page 1.”
Christensen is only the fifth woman to have won the Penn Faulkner award and after hearing the details about this book I’m going out and buying it later today. It also has one of my favorite elements in fiction—cooking and food. (I wish more writers would include cooking and meals....) What a person cooks and eats tells us so much about them and I love that Christenson cooked the recipes in the story as she was writing. The story and an excerpt from the book are located at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90327342
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