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...
winning use freak
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
brain behaviour mediocrity
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
glasses milk staggering
Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
unique normalcy glimpse
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
nice heartless pay
Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.
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.
athlete training limits
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
innocence forgetfulness stamina
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
enough publishing interpersonal
Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
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.
cat air sea
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
military soldier female
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
reader storyteller
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
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.