{"id":164,"date":"2007-08-25T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T16:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-02-25T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:44:18","slug":"bss-131-kate-christensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-131-kate-christensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Christensen (BSS #131)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Christensen is most recently the author of <i>The Great Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/katechristensen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"katechristensen\" width=\"455\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/katechristensen.jpg 455w, http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/katechristensen-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 91vw, (max-width: 900px) 600px, (max-width: 1060px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 520px, (max-width: 1400px) 43vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7409\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-164-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=164-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo131.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 44:25 &#8212; 40.7MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Contemplating his biographical legacy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/katechristensen\/\">Kate Christensen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> First-person vs. third-person narration, Hugo from <i>The Epicure&#8217;s Lament<\/I> vs. Oscar in <i>The Great Man<\/i>, dead men, dying women, being obsessed with death, the sex lives of older women, the difficulties of writing third-person without planning, stacked sentences, Richard Ford, over-the-top observations, MFK Fisher, what food says about people, kosher diets, whether or not an octogenarian can be spry, emasculated men, painting nudes, on being labeled a feminist writer, antipodean biographers, populating a novel with twins, poetry, the many ways of appreciating art, the difficulties of female writers being taken seriously, writing visceral messes, the origin of the fictitious <i>New York Times<\/i> articles, how unexpected character qualities are discovered, on making Oscar contemptible, and seducing your best friend&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Christensen:<\/b> You can say he has certain things in common with Claudia in <i>In the Drink<\/i> and Hugo especially in <i>The Epicure&#8217;s Lament<\/i>, in that he can say whatever he wants and he&#8217;s sort of a loose cannon in a way.  He has a lot of opinions and he&#8217;s a man of excess appetites, like all the earlier narrators.  And he was successful and therefore not interesting to me as a first-person narrator.  My first-person narrators tend to be losers.  They&#8217;re the kind of people whose heads I like to get in and who I like to have take over my brain.  That entertains me deeply.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7410\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-164-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=164-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo131.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 44:25 &#8212; 40.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Christensen is most recently the author of The Great Man. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating his biographical legacy. Author: Kate Christensen Subjects Discussed: First-person vs. third-person narration, Hugo from The Epicure&#8217;s Lament vs. Oscar in The Great Man, dead men, dying women, being obsessed with death, the sex lives of older women, the difficulties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7411\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-164-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=164-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo131.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 44:25 &#8212; 40.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1084],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}