Books by Katherine Dunn
“It’s a truly mad, brilliant novel. Al Binewski, the owner of a travelling carnival, marries a Boston aristocrat who has run away from privilege to become an aerialist, but suffers a catastrophic injury that curtails her planned career. Needing to drum up interest in the carnival, they decide to have children and to expose Lil to prescription drugs, insecticides and ‘radioisotopes’ in order to intentionally mutate their children, so they can perform in the carnival and always have something unique that they can monetise; an ‘inherited security’ of the type Lil’s privileged background gave her.” Read more...
Heather Parry, Novelist
Interviews where books by Katherine Dunn were recommended
The Best Body Horror Books, recommended by Heather Parry
Body horror is often bloody and gory, argues the novelist Heather Parry, but it is also a vessel for social commentary. Here she recommends five books that explore notions of bodily autonomy, capitalism and technology through the form of a horror novel – cult hits that will make you wince, but also make you think.
