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May 11, 2016 katherine dunn was a novelist and boxing journalist who lived and worked in oregon. Is dunns book disconcerting because in some important way its more a reflection of ourselves than we care to admit. In order to save their traveling carnival from bankruptcy, the binewskis. The collected stories of katherine anne porter by the mindful geek.
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