Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
A curious amalgam of thoughts, reviews and perspectives on the novel from around the world wide ether.
- "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 for her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. 'Spread your lips, sweet Lil,' they'd cluck, 'and show us your choppers!'"Geek Love, p 3.
- The people you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult
"It’s like a strange little club – those of us who have read the book. It’s a bit of a litmus test. If someone says, “I loved Geek Love” … I am immediately drawn to that person, like a moth to the flame … who are you, it says something about you that THAT would be your favorite …"
from The Sheila Variations.
@CircusBoy1 Have you read Geek Love by Katherine Dunn? It's about the 1st definition of a geek - original circus geek - Amazing book!
@notthatyouasked Geek Love. Oddest, grossest (in a weird way) book ever. And yet, I can't stop reading it."'It was in Oregon, up in Portland, which they call the Rose City... You could see for miles from up there. And there was a big rose garden with arbors and trellises and fountains... "
...The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity contrived to give them value. "It just struck me - clear and complete all at once - no long figuring about it." He realized that children could be designed. "And I thought to myself, now that would be a rose garden worthy of a man's interest."
Geek Love, p 9-10.
'Geek Love' by Katherine Dunn ~ Sideshow Freak Reflects Back on FamilyAugust 24, 2009 07:26 PM EDT (Updated: August 24, 2009 07:40 PM EDT) About two years ago I wrote an article describing some of my favorite books in six word sentences - a la flash fiction style. You know, the way Ernest Hemingway did with the classic flash fiction story; "For sale, baby shoes, never used."- Reading for Writers: Geek Love by Katherine DunnSep 14, 2010 ... And in Geek Love, Katherine Dunn does it masterfully. Her title, her table of contents, her epigraph, and the first two pages of her book ...
Geek Love « Picture Book ReportOly follows her daughter to the Glass House Club, a private establishment specializing in "Exotic Features". Dancers strip for an enthusiastic crowd who prefer performers who offer something special. Girls like Denise with her knee-length mane of pubic hair, or buxom Paulette whose g-string hides a shriveled penis, and her daughter Miranda who has a tiny tail curling out from the base of her spine.- "Everyone in Portland is living a minimum of three lives," says Katherine Dunn... "Everyone has at least three identities."Quoted by Chuck Palahniuk in Fugitives and Refugees: a Walk in Portland, Oregon.Katherine Dunn: Novelist, Voice-Artist... Boxer?
'Geek Love' author fights off purse snatcher in Northwest PortlandNoted Portland writer Katherine Dunn - author of 'Geek Love' and many works on boxing - fought off a purse snatcher nearly 40 years her junior.
Guernica / On the Beauty of ViolenceOn the twentieth anniversary of Geek Love, Dunn discusses her new book, the cultural value of boxing, and why some sports are superior to the arts. Katherine Dunn has a new book out. That's not something one gets to say terribly often. The book, entitled One Ring Circus, is a collection of her musings on boxing.
Geek Love, The Movie?I first met Katherine Dunn back in the day when she was writing her column, The Slice, for Willamette Week newspaper. It was the first thing most people read when they picked up WW unless there was a cover story about someone well-known having sex with someone else who was either gay, young, male or female.
Geek Love Author Recognizes the Monsters Inside of Us, but Still Can't Forgive Disney for Old YellerIt's been twenty years since Katherine Dunn's novel, Geek Love -- about a sideshow family that manufactures its own freaks in pursuit of fame and fortune -- was published, but it remains as vivid as ever. And thanks to the movies she saw as a child, Dunn has her own traumatic memories.
