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'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.

Katherine Dunn

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.

Katherine Dunn

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.

Katherine Dunn

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.

Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

Born: October 24, 1945

Died: May 11, 2016 (aged 70)

Bio: Katherine Karen Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love.

Known for:

Geek Love (1989)
Truck (1971)
The Slice (1989)
Attic (1970)

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