Epicurean
The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Kate Christensen, whose latest novel The Astral is out in paperback, picks her favorite books about food. Plus, more of our Book Bags from Jennifer Egan and Carlin Romano.
Kate Christensen won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. She's also the author of The Astral (2011), Trouble (2009), The Epicure's Lament (2004), Jeremy Thrane (2001), and In the Drink (1999). Follow her @aquavita.