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Katherine dunn new book5/23/2023 The Binewski family is a tornado-eye look at popular culture, desire, and identity. A story of a family of circus ‘freaks’, genetically modified by the copious number of chemicals consumed by the mother during pregnancy. Katherine Dunn is best known as author of the 1989 cult success, Geek Love. After a few hours the smell didn’t hurt my nose anymore. There were bowls on the floor with dusty puddles of milk in them, plates with crusts of moldy cat food. The papers shifted and were noisy under my feet. He put fresh papers over the soiled ones. Sam had put down newspapers so that he could walk, but the cats shat on them. The shit lay in thin stiff smears on the carpets. By the time the door opened my eyes were watering. The smell hit me on the sidewalk in front of Sam’s house. Not least of these is author Katherine Dunn. Let us not forget that Moshfegh’s writing emerges from a legacy of female writers willing to turn the stomach, delighting at our habitual discomfort and our expectation of certain censored details. Yet Ottessa Moshfegh’s place at the apex of everything downright dirty shows how trends have carried us back to a place where to revel in the scatological, Joycean aspects of existence is once again mainstream. Novels saturated in those gross, utterly human details that we fully expect literary fiction to bypass as tonally inconsistent with ‘highbrow’ literature. Grimy fiction is having something of a popular renaissance.
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