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...
sweet men feminist
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
fighting men boys
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
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.
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.
men growing violence
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
men soon-enough texas
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.
american-novelist college high portland school suburb
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
iron parent sometimes
Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
book thinking use
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
thinking important going-away
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
athlete training limits
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
feels courses
Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
innocence forgetfulness stamina
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.