Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Karen Dunnwas an American best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love. She was also a prolific writer on boxing...
war long romance
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
pain proof-of-love nausea
He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.
people worst
My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
men texas years
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.
children grief reality
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.
sex ideas males
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
everyday research medical
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
writing thinking people
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
freak born made
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
sex tired would-be
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
two people long
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
heart bees like-you
Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.
falling-in-love powerful reading
[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.
sweet rain light
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.