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.
magic age trouble
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
hens crystals mama
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
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.
stories doorways intersections
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
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.
struggle survival tools
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
freak born made
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
nice heartless pay
Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.
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.
writing thinking people
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
feels courses
Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.