Katherine Dunn
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Katherine Dunn was a novelist and journalist known for her boxing reporting and her bestselling novel Geek Love, a finalist for the Bram Stoker Prize and the National Book Award in 1989.
Books
Toad (coming November 1st 2022)
The Education of Mrs. R (In the Paris Review)
The Resident Poet (In the New Yorker)
One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Other Low-Life Answers to Real-Life Questions
The Slice: Information With Attitude
News stories about the author
Everything But Money: On Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn: Out of the Past With Toad
Toad on Lithub: 22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall
Toad on Bookriot: 30 OF THE BUZZIEST, BEST FALL BOOKS OF 2022
Toad in The Chicago Tribune: Books for Fall 2022
Toad on Vogue's Best Books to Read This Fall
Toad review - Publisher's Weekly
The road for 'Toad' leads to a book deal for late Katherine Dunn
YouTube Review of The Resident Poet
Discovering Katherine Dunn’s Unpublished Work
A conversation with Naomi Huffman.
Love ‘Tiger King’? You’ll Love These Books, Too (Geek Love is 1st on the list)
Unpublished Katherine Dunn novel will arrive this fall; ‘Toad’ tells of 1970s Portland life
An Unpublished Novel From “Geek Love” Author Katherine Dunn Is Finally Being Released This Year
Attention: we are getting TWO new Katherine Dunn books
“On Cussing” Proves the Late Portland Writer Katherine Dunn Still Has Many Bleeps Left to Give
It's a damn shame: Katherine Dunn's 'On Cussing' reminds us of the writer we lost
Book on cuss words a !* funny read
Geek Love Begets More Love Through Pacific University's Katherine Dunn Scholarship
Pacific University to Honor Former Faculty Member and Celebrated Author Katherine Dunn
"So that's the news from puddletown" Memories of Katherine Dunn