Writing is, increasingly, a moral issue for me. The evasion of inexpensive facility, the rejection of the flying bridges built so seductively into the language, require a constant effort of will. The determination required for honest exploration and analysis of the human terrain is often greater than I command. But the fruits of that determination seem worthy of all my efforts."
"He is the apocalyptic stylist who dissolved the genre walls of science fiction....He is the diagnostic visionary who explored the mesmerizing sensuality of car wrecks in the novel 'Crash', to define the relationship between humans and their technology....This British novelist...isn't content to scrape off the suspect surface of extremism, but plunges into a surgical examination of the power, passion and despair at its heart."
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Katherine Dunn attended Portland State and Reed College. In addition to writing novels, she has had a varied career as a journalist, house painter, bartender, teacher, radio personality, boxing correspondent for the Associated Press, and writer of an advice column. She has a son named Eli.
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10/24/45 Kansas, Plains States, Midwestern States, United States,
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If you're building your library according to Oprah's Book Club, this may not be the read for you. A dark and delicious challenge to traditional ideas of beauty, worth, and hero worship. A modern day Grimm's fairy tale! (Or is that fairy tail?)