Chana Porter

Nov 22, 2023 | tor.com | Chana Porter

I fantasize about the food culture of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine more than any other invented universe. I long to try a sip of spring wine, or experience the spicy tang of hasperat. And my kingdom for a raktajino! The extra-strong Klingon coffee is mentioned briefly in other series, but no one seems to drink it as much as the senior officers on DS9. Double sweet, double strong, your replicator or mine?

Oct 18, 2023 | sacbee.com | Ed Park |Bryan Washington |Abraham Verghese |Chana Porter

You’re probably not surprised to hear that the Bon Appétit and Epicurious staff is full of bookworms. Now that it’s fall, we love to cozy up with a warm snack and a new book—and if you’re just like us, we’re here to recommend what you should be reading next. Especially now, as we slither toward Halloween, our book picks look eerie yet delectable: We’re leaning into food and horror, whether that’s cannibalism in A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G.

Sep 5, 2023 | everybookadoorway.com | Chana Porter |Freya Marske |Em Liu |Christopher Buehlman

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

Apr 27, 2023 | writersdigest.com | Chana Porter

My newest novel, The Thick and The Lean, posits a culture where sexual pleasure is mundane but food pleasure is highly taboo. I used this classic SF taboo switch trope to explore purity culture and diet culture, as well as Big Agriculture, land rights, and body politics. The world I’ve created is a warped reflection of our own reality, partially inspired by my own experiences with disordered eating.

Apr 18, 2023 | largeheartedboy.com | Chana Porter

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Chana Porter’s novel The Thick and the Lean is a powerful and viscerally told feminist fable.