Geek Love is one of the main reasons I rarely loan out books anymore--at least, not with the expectation that I'll ever see them again. When I heard the news yesterday that its author, Katherine Dunn, had died at the age of 70, I looked to my shelves, found my copy once again absent, and found myself thinking first not of Dunn, but of all the people who might have forever-borrowed it from me--punk rock kids and travelers passing through, exes, friends in other towns where I used to live. For the...
Katherine Dunn, Author of Geek Love, Has Died: Read Her 1995 Essay on the Bad Girl in Vogue
Vogue - 13 May 2016 23:49
Geek Love is one of the main reasons I rarely loan out books anymore--at least, not with the expectation that I'll ever see them again. When I heard the news yesterday that its author, Katherine Dunn, had died at the age of 70, I looked to my shelves, found my copy once again absent, and found myself thinking first not of Dunn, but of all the people who might have forever-borrowed it from me--punk rock kids and travelers passing through, exes, friends in other towns where I used to live. For the...
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