Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for Books,” Book Marks, interviewed Portland author Karen Russell, author of Sleep Donation. For her thoughts on 19 books, click here, but below– a sampling. Book Marks: First book you remember loving? Karen Russell: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle BM: Favorite re-read? KR: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn BM: What book do you …
From Willamette Week May 18, 2016 The Strange and Beautiful Life of Katherine Dunn, Portland’s Beloved Geek She tended bar, sliced up sanctimony, and maybe even breathed fire. BY AARON MESH, MATTHEW KORFHAGE and BETH SLOVIC Katherine Dunn saw broken and twisted things, wrapped them in her words, and made them beautiful. A boxer’s bleeding …
I ended up working in a hospital by accident. I attended not one minute of college. I had all kinds of jobs, several in warehouses or factories, but at a certain point I’d been unemployed for a while and decided to take the Civil Service Test, see where that might lead. I was offered a …
