Shape-Shifting Young Novelist Impersonates a Wildean Oddball

The Epicure’s Lament , by Kate Christensen. Doubleday, 351 pages, $23.95.

Kate Christensen is a serious writer: Don’t be fooled by the relentless hipness or what seems the full-throttle frivolity of her subject matter – the joke, if you don’t get it, is on you. Her first novel, In the Drink (1999), earned her wide Read More