The Queen of "Loser Lit"

The New York Post gets in on the Kate Christensen frenzy, as she describes how much fun it was to write about selfish characters:

"Writing this whole book felt like playing... The characters are all so heedless of each other's feelings. No one is a victim. I found it comforting to write about people like that."

They're certainly fun to read about, that's for sure. Anhoni Patel agrees (in the San Francisco Chronicle) but could've done without the 9/11 references, while Marta Salij (who uses the phrase "deliciously wicked" to describe the narrator and the novel in the same sentence, tsk tsk) praises Christensen's "deft touch" and muses on the protagonist, "Do you find Hugo a little unlikable? Strange -- I think I love him. I'm in love with him, I think. Too bad he's going to be dead soon."

photo: NYPost/Jennifer Weisbord