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American author Katie Kitamura has acquired a reputation as something of a writer’s writer – her work meditates on writing craft, interrogating the relationship between the ideas underpinning ...

Kristine “Kris” Kitamura passed away on April 14, 2025, at the age of 84, surrounded by love and family during her final days. Born on October 12, 1940, in Seattle, Washington, Kris spent part ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I recently learnt that before becoming a novelist, Katie Kitamura – one of the most sublime sentence-writers working in the ...

And so, the “emotional core” of Kitamura’s new novel, “Audition,” was born. “People can have this intense familiarity and intimacy with their children – and this powerful sense of ...

AUDITION. By Katie Kitamura. Riverhead Books. 208 Pages. $25. A woman meets a man half her age at a sleek Manhattan restaurant for lunch. Is he her lover or her son? If the former, then you might ...

Samira and her guests have also been reading Katie Kitamura's new book Audition, about an actress who agrees to have dinner with a young man who seems fixated on her, and includes a 'sliding doors ...

He could be her admirer. She might be paying him for a date. This sort of ambiguity is at the heart of Katie Kitamura's novel. She told me she got the idea for the book from a headline she saw ...

To enter a Katie Kitamura book is to get lost in an ice palace. We marvel at its crystalline mazes, chills tingling our spines, wisps of breath twirling from the page. Nobody writes like her ...

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