One box holds a postcard from Stephen King dated 1982: “Thanks for the Cujo review,” he wrote, referencing Dunn’s write-up in Willamette Week. But an accelerating trickle of posthumously published fiction is unearthing a rich, never-before-seen body of work.īefore she died, Dunn bequeathed her papers, 47 legal file storage boxes, to the archives of Lewis & Clark College in Southwest Portland. To most people, Geek Love was the extent of Dunn’s fiction. The book would win the hearts of celebrated outsiders spanning Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love to Tim Burton-who to this day owns the novel’s film rights. Inspired by the bioengineered flowers of Washington Park’s International Rose Test Garden, Dunn wrote a surrealist tale of genetically modified circus freaks, an ode to misfits. In 1989, at age 43, she published Geek Love. This has been the case with the archive of Katherine Dunn, the beloved Portland author who died in 2016. The fountain is cut off, so we dive deep, groping for more of whatever it is we loved in their work. When an artist dies, everything they’ve touched becomes precious. From the Trade Paperback edition.Image: Courtesy the Estate of Katherine Dunn As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset. Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan. Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities.

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