5/30/2023 0 Comments Katherine dunn's geek love![]() ![]() I was particularly curious about “Attic,” the story of a young woman, also named Katherine Dunn, who’s incarcerated after being arrested for attempting to cash a blank check, because I’d read Elizabeth Dalton’s dismissive review of the novel for the New York Times. (This was before “Attic” was reissued, by Vintage/Anchor, in 2017.) “She did, and I can’t find anyone who knows anything about them,” I replied. “Katherine Dunn wrote other books?” a cashier at the information desk in the basement of the Strand asked when I inquired. I’d been unable to find them in used bookstores. I’d read “Geek Love” three times, and thought I’d exhausted Dunn’s body of work, when I realized that she’d written two other novels I knew nothing about-“ Attic,” from 1970, published when she was just twenty-five, and “ Truck,” from 1971. ![]() ![]() Can you explain how you came across the story and what role you’ve played in bringing Dunn’s unpublished work to readers? The story in this week’s issue, “ The Resident Poet,” is a previously unpublished piece by Katherine Dunn, who died in 2016 and was the author of, among other things, the best-selling 1989 novel “ Geek Love,” which follows a family of self-described “freaks” who operate and perform for a travelling circus. ![]()
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