Quiddity (Free subscription) | yesterday
Katherine Dunn (author of one of my favorite books, Geek Love) showed a purse snatcher why you don't want to mess with an author who has a passion for boxing. “My left arm is wrapped up in the purse, her...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
And stay off her lawn, too. 'Geek Love' author fights off purse snatcher in Northwest Portland | Health & Fitness News - OregonLive.com : "Author Katherine Dunn spent more than 10 years training with the fighters of Knott Street Boxing Club in Northeast Portland’s Matt Dishman Community Center. But Dunn, best known for her novel “Geek Love,” had never fought for a purse until...
Circle Of Life (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I heard about the Great Interview Experiment hosted by Citzen of the Month via my hubby, SciFi Dad . I thought it would be fun to participate. If anything, it would give me a chance to get to know two more bloggers! I interviewed Veach from Snapperhead . MTM: How did you come up with the blog name "Snapperhead"? Veach: The term was a neologism I fabricated in the mid-1990's to be used—derogatorily—when...
Apifera Farm: where animals,art and lavender collide (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Remember a few days ago when I put out a plea for the lovely elderly goat ladies from New Moon Farm Goat Rescue needing a home? Well, someone came through! Her name is Katherine Dunn...um, oh, that would be me! Quit laughing. I suppose some of you just rolled your eyes and thought, "How long is it going to take her to pull a Lucy Ricardo on the Dirt Farmer and get those old goats in the barn?"...Ellen...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
[As part of the Delerious Hem forum on male writes writing about feminism, Christian Peet wrote the following interesting analysis of Aase Berg's poetry (The interview is rather long and it has other interesting analyses, but I'll just post this part). This is one of the most interesting uses of eco-poetics I've read:] resently my feminist icons tend to be living, are not always icons for other folks,...
Apifera Farm: where animals,art and lavender collide (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
I will have the vet pack up some of the abscess goop and package it nicely for Paypal. If anyone uses a merchant for online shopping carts for their site, please let me know which one. I think I've outgrown Paypal. If you'd still like to enter the raffle, you will have to mail a check to me at 14710 NW Tupper RD, Yamhill, OR, 97148. Please send by 10/1. And let me know you are mailing it. I'm off to...
The Tree with the Lights in it (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Another busy week. I'm enjoying a perfect summer peach for breakfast, and realizing that what will all my teenage nieces visiting and other busy family stuff, I haven't blogged in ages. Also, the only thing I've painted lately is my toenails, and that was a while ago too. BUT, let me tell you about all the good books I have bookmarks in right now! I read a little every day, it's my favorite way to...
The Plumbline School (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
Poetry Body Traffic by Stephen Dobyns (contains some great poems about aging, some very original looks at various body parts, and a sequence of sonnets about Cezanne that's really about writing poetry) And by Michael Blumenthal (wow, I'd never heard of this guy before a friend recommended the book. Lyrical, discursive, classical and innovative at the same time, truly hybrid in the way that the Norton...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Katherine Dunn (Geek Love) admires Kate Christensen’s novels. (The Epicure’s Lament is her favorite.)
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Trouble by Kate Christensen, a review from The Oregonian by Katherine Dunn.
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Genius writer Katherine Dunn talks about her new book on boxing in this recent interview. Her honesty is, of course, startling, raw, and refreshing. She's brilliant. She makes the rest of the goddamn world just seem so insufferably POLITE. Well,...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
At Guernica, Katherine Dunn talks about One Ring Circus, her new collection of impassioned musings on boxing. (Please excuse Twitter dup; I’m excited.)
John Connell (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Darcie Condie offers a neat inversion in a quotation from Katherine Dunn’s novel Geek Love: 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 [...]
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
The A.V. Club’s new literary feature, Wrapped Up In Books, launched last week with a discussion of Katherine Dunn’s acclaimed 1989 novel Geek Love . Nominated for a National Book Award, Geek Love follows a family of carnival freaks who become the center of a snake-oil spiritual movement involving voluntary amputation. To wrap up our lively conversation about the book, The A.V. Club talked...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
The A.V. Club’s new literary feature, Wrapped Up In Books, launched last week with a discussion of Katherine Dunn’s acclaimed 1989 novel Geek Love . Nominated for a National Book Award, Geek Love follows a family of carnival freaks who become the center of a snake-oil spiritual movement involving voluntary amputation. To wrap up our lively conversation about the book, The A.V. Club talked...
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