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Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura
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Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura is based in New York. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wired, and The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to Frieze.

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Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. I don't think I would - that's too much like tempting fate.
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Gone to the Forest will be released on August 07, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Aug 07, 2012
Gone to the Forest is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Aug 07, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Gone to the Forest
Jul 28, 2012
Jul 17, 2012
Free Press Summer Fiction Sampler will be released on May 01, 2012 in eBook
May 01, 2012
Free Press Summer Fiction Sampler is now available in eBook
May 01, 2012
Oct 08, 2009
The Longshot will be released on August 11, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Aug 11, 2009
The Longshot is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Aug 11, 2009
The Longshot will be released on August 11, 2009 in eBook
Aug 11, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Longshot
Jun 10, 2009
Jun 05, 2009
The Longshot is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 02, 2009
The Longshot is now available in eBook
Jun 01, 2009
Apr 04, 2009

Katie Kitamura Revealed

Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. I don't think I would - that's too much like tempting fate. Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. Heidi, A Girl of the Alps Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. A soft pelt Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Being on time Learn more about Katie Kitamura

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Melbourne Age, May 17, 2013
...By Katie Kitamura The Clerkenwell Press, $27.99 Katie Kitamura's haunting second novel, , is set in an unspecified era much like the not-too-distant past, in an unnamed colonial country on the...
Irish Times, March 23, 2013
...Paperback review...
Observer, February 23, 2013
...second novel is a gripping tale of anti-colonial revolution and the death of a powerful old man Thirty-three-year-old Katie Kitamura writes about raging, ageing men better than most raging, ageing men do themselves. Like her debut, The Longshot â the...
Guardian.co.uk, February 23, 2013
...second novel is a gripping tale of anti-colonial revolution and the death of a powerful old man Thirty-three-year-old Katie Kitamura writes about raging, ageing men better than most raging, ageing men do themselves. Like her debut, The Longshot – the...
Guardian.co.uk, February 15, 2013
...Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read. It's...
Telegraph, January 11, 2013
...2013 promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Evasive, vaguely intelligent and of a deliberate...
Telegraph, January 11, 2013
...2013 promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Evasive, vaguely intelligent and of a deliberate...
Melbourne Age, May 17, 2013
...By Katie Kitamura The Clerkenwell Press, $27.99 Katie Kitamura's haunting second novel, , is set in an unspecified era much like the not-too-distant past, in an unnamed colonial country on the...
Absolutearts.com, May 7, 2013
...Peter Frase, Rivka Galchen, Alex Gourevitch, David Graeber, Group Theory, N. Katherine Hayles, Thomas Keenan, Myung Mi Kim, Katie Kitamura, Josh Kline, Benjamin Kunkel, Ajay Kurian, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marie Lorenz, Niklas Maak, Danny Marcus, Mary...
New York Observer, May 6, 2013
...West 24 Street, New York, 6-8 p.m. Talk: ?Art in Literature? with Rachel Kushner, Ben Marcus and Katie Kitamura at Frieze New York It’s just a banner week for talking about art and literature (or art in literature). —Z.L. Frieze, Randall’s...
Huffington Post, January 11, 2013
...2013 promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Read the whole story: Telegraph...
Huffington Post, January 11, 2013
...2013 promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Read More...
Booktrade - Book2Book, January 11, 2013
...promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Telegraph...
Telegraph, January 11, 2013
...2013 promises to be a breakthrough year for many young novelists. We spoke to Sheila Heti, Gavin Corbett, Katie Kitamura, Sam Byers and Owen Martell about mad cows, wretched girls and jazz after dark. Evasive, vaguely intelligent and of a deliberate...