I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings. -Katherine Dunn Sports
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. -Katherine Dunn Death
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure. -Katherine Dunn Sports
I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all. -Katherine Dunn Mom
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. -Katherine Dunn War
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide. -Katherine Dunn Legal
We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern. -Katherine Dunn Dad
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. -Katherine Dunn Environmental
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. -Katherine Dunn Medical
