![]() And I think someone who is just writing to make as incisive an impression as she can. Huffman: I think there is this distinctive confidence, someone with a poetic sense of language, but also a fierce sense of voice and personality. Miller: Could you describe, just for yourself, how Katherine Dunn’s writing works at the sentence level? I mean, what makes her prose hers? Miller: How many times have you read it since then? Miller: Do you remember when you read “Geek Love” for the first time? ![]() I think she really feels distinguished as someone who was writing to just deal with some of her own pain and some of her own darkness, and I really admire the bravery of that. Katherine’s writing, to me, has always been an expression of a truly singular voice and a writer who was really writing in her own form, and in her own time. Miller: What has Katherine Dunn’s writing meant to you over the course of your life? Naomi Huffman edited “Toad” and she joins us now to talk about it. Dunn tried repeatedly to publish “Toad” in the 1970s, but it never happened. ![]() It’s a previously unpublished novel called “Toad”. The late Portland writer, Katherine Dunn, the author of “Geek Love”, has a new book out six years after her death and about 50 years after she wrote it. ![]() This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. ![]()
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