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...
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.
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.
beautiful hurt earthquakes
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.
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.
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.
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.
ideas care culture
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.