Katherine Dunn

Cause then you can actually have a conversation and within it, one of the things was like, if you were going to do another anthology, you know, theme or tribute to someone, who would it be? What would it be? And I took a beat to think about it.

Cause I've done obviously like a number of them and I, I, didn't have one in the bag i didn't they kind of just come to me and i get inspired i go oh fuck we're doing that i want to do that and i hadn't had one you know ready locked and loaded just because i don't know i've been a little overwhelmed with some other stuff in my life and weird punk is um it's not taking a back seat right but because it's always here it's always waiting for me uh but i've just you know had to focus on some other things and haven't had as much time to think about kind of future projects as i'd like and so i had i was like i need to come up with something what would i gun to my head what would i want to do and just following the kind of stream from the um The Ballard the JG Ballard anthology feral architecture It's like who's another kind of literary hero of mine who I would love to write a love letter to And and publish a love letter to buy other weirdo writers who love them and it was like Katherine Dunn No question.

Like how did I not think of this already? and so that like That question prompted the entire concept.

I came up with like, in my interview, answer came up with a title.

Some in our book club were disturbed by this novel, but all agreed they were deeply moved by it.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

Reader Francesca Smithwick Driver chose this as a book club pick in the 90s for her group and the 1989 National Book Award.

Fiction finalist remains a favorite.