I don’t know that it would have occurred to me to search for more of Dunn’s work if it weren’t for small presses, journals, and magazines like And Other Stories, Another Gaze, Cita Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Deep Vellum, Dorothy, the Feminist Press, New Directions, New York Review Books, Persephone Books, the Second Shelf, Silver Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, Verso Books, Wendy’s Subway, and many others. I am grateful for their inspired efforts, their differing visions of a more radical and inclusive publishing industry. I am thankful for the folks who read Toad alongside me: Mitzi Angel, Emily Bell, Jonathan Galassi, Sean McDonald, Jackson Howard, Julia Ringo, Patrick Ford-Matz, and especially Lydia Zoells and Daphne Durham.

And to Eli, for breakfast, and for your trust.

March 2022

Also by Katherine Dunn

Also by Katherine Dunn

FICTION

Geek Love

Truck

Attic

NONFICTION

On Cussing

One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing

The Slice: Information with an Attitude

A Note About the Author

Katherine Dunn is the author of Geek Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Award, as well as the novels Attic and Truck. She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in Esquire, KO Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, The Ring, Sports Illustrated, and Vogue. Her writing on boxing is collected in One Ring Circus. In 2004, Dunn and the photographer Jim Lommasson won the Lange-Taylor Prize for their work on the book Shadow Boxers. Dunn died in 2016. You can sign up for email updates here.

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1. * Aaron Mesh, Matthew Korfhage, and Beth Slovic, “Master of the Sucker-Punch Sentence: Katherine Dunn ’69,” Obituaries, Reed Magazine, September 2016.
2. * Douglas Perry, “Unpublished Katherine Dunn Novel Will Arrive This Fall,” The Oregonian, January 31, 2020.
3. * Chris Griffin, “‘The Glass House, a Sideshow, Variety, and Burlesque Tribute to Geek Love’ August 9th at The Bier Baron,” Theater Arts, DC Metro, July 31, 2015.
4. † Mesh, Korfhage, and Slovic, “Master of the Sucker-Punch Sentence.”
5. * Carol Yost, “Communism, Atheism, Free Love: How a T-shirt Was Born,” Reed Magazine, September 2015.
6. * Katherine Dunn, “Bad Girl,” Vogue, June 1995.
7. † Douglas Perry, “The Rise of Katherine Dunn: How the Late Portland Author Survived Hard Times and Became a Literary Legend,” The Oregonian, December 3, 2017.
8. * Perry, “The Rise of Katherine Dunn.”