Authors
Katherine Dunn
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Katherine Dunn (1945–2016) is the author of Geek Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Award, as well as the novels Toad, Attic, and Truck. She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in Esquire, KO Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The Ring, Sports Illustrated, and Vogue. Her writing on boxing is collected in One Ring Circus. In 2004, Dunn and the photographer Jim Lommasson won the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize for their work on the book Shadow Boxers. Dunn died in 2016.
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"[Dunn's] collection is a welcome reminder that literature can be not only a showcase for polished, refined sentiment but also an arena in which both reader and writer grapple—with imminent challenges, with their own psyches, with the uncertainty of survival . . . Dunn’s pieces have an almost irrepressible kinetic energy."
Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times"Violent, sensual, and at times delightfully off-putting . . . Dunn’s provocative and unflinching commitment to black-humor in the face of the taboo is on full display in Near Flesh; this collection is unafraid to be nasty in ways that we don’t often get to see anymore."
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