Katherine Dunn wrote Geek Love, which I read last year, shortly after I read Gravity's Rainbow. I suppose you can call it the book that convinced me there would be life after Pynchon. Kick-ass life, at that. Life with gills.
You can draw your own added parallels, if you want: Geek Love came out in 1989; now, nearly two decades later, she's working her way around to publishing her next novel. She drops some hints about the new book, The Cut Man, in a comment to her first post:
Forgive me for being vague about this. I’m not religious but I’m definitely superstitious.
Cut man is set in the world of small town, small time boxing. The cut man of the title is the guy in a boxer’s corner who is skilled at stopping the bleeding if the boxer gets a cut or bloody nose during the fight. This book has all sorts of sub-plots and supporting as well as peripheral characters. It’s about—maybe—obsession and delusion (the care and feeding thereof) or maybe it’s about beauty—its nature and abuses—or maybe it’s just about eggs and what happens to them before the omelet appears. How’s that for oblique?
I'm excited. (I'm also going to read the essay she posted today, uh, sometime soon, I swear.)
Via and via (who was so on this, like, yesterday).
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