![]() ![]() “The things most destructive to you are the things you must confront,” she explains. The writers I like most tend to confront the aspect of life they're dealing with,” she adds, citing Gabriel García Márquez and Günter Grass. “But they are actual parts of the world I see. How does Dunn square the horror and the beauty? “I've been accused all my life of being preoccupied with the bizarre, the macabre, the violent,” she admits. The terror induced by the characters in the traveling carnival, Binewski's Fabulon, is of the wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-screaming variety. ![]() And it's not just garden-variety repulsion. Publishers Weekly's review called Geek Love (or The Geek, as Dunn affectionately calls her creation) “terrifying,” “shocking” and “bizarre.” It is all of these. And if you're going to make something, she said, why not make it beautiful?” She used to tell me that man differs from animals in that he makes something. Whatever she did, she was always an artist. She painted a bit, too, though she had to use whatever was around as a canvas. She did all the voices, and acted it all out. ![]() “And she couldn't come back from the grocery store without telling a story. to know that somewhere in this lady's background there was a storyteller extraordinaire. One has only to open Katherine Dunn's new book, Geek Love. ![]()
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