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...
thinking research fertile
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
reader storyteller
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
men bravery selfless
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
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.
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.