Katherine Dunn, Author . Schaffner $16.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-9801394-2-6
Novelist Dunn (Geek Love
) collects 22 essays and articles written over the last quarter-century. In 1980, Dunn's then-husband had her watch a fight on TV and from that day forward she was hooked. Soon afterward, Dunn began freelancing boxing...
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Katherine Dunn, Author Grand Central Publishing $6.99 (118p) ISBN 978-0-446-39412-3
This brief book collects excerpts from the question-and-answer column that Dunn ( Geek Love ) formerly wrote for an alternative weekly newspaper in Portland, Ore. As ``The Slicer,'' Dunn is more irreverent than many advice columnists, taking on such
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Katherine Dunn, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (347p) ISBN 978-0-394-56902-4
This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: ``Reader Beware.'' Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and
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Katherine Dunn. MCD, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-60235-2
This delightfully offbeat collection from Geek Love author Dunn (1945–2016) mixes tales of surprising encounters with those of unsettling dislocations. It begins with a series of flash fictions including “The Flautist,” an evocative two-pager about...
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Katherine Dunn. MCD, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-60232-1
Dunn (1945–2016) leaves readers a throwback to the 1960s counterculture scene in this pungent precursor to her 1989 National Book Award finalist Geek Love. Sally Gunnar, middle-aged and living alone with her goldfish, reminisces about her student...
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