Dunn then reëvaluated her approach to writing a novel.ĭunn’s childhood was notable for its poverty, its itineracy, and the influence of her larger-than-life mother, Velma Rossich, née Golly. She rewrote and submitted the novel to publishers for the next eight or nine years, but couldn’t get it published. Harper & Row bought the third book, “ Toad,” on spec just after the first two were published, but they later rejected it. Two of the books-“ Attic” and “ Truck”-were published in 19 by Harper & Row, before she turned twenty-six. The book was so resonant for Gilliam that as recently as 2010 he was still trying to adapt the novel, this time as a West End stage play.īefore she wrote “Geek Love,” Dunn had written three realistic novels, all of them based on events from her life.
According to Gilliam, Johnny Depp wanted to play the book’s most interesting character, Arturo the Aqua Boy, so badly that he tried to get Gilliam to make “Geek Love” into a movie-Tim Burton ended up buying the rights. Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Flea, and the Monty Pythonite Terry Gilliam were all outspoken fans. “Geek Love” is historically beloved by dark and eccentric artists, many of whom are famous. The book is about what happens after the circus impresario Aloysius Binewski feeds “cocaine, amphetamines, and arsenic” to his repeatedly pregnant wife, a retired geek named Crystal Lil, to genetically engineer a family of circus freaks. When Katherine Dunn’s novel “ Geek Love” became Sonny Mehta’s first purchase as editor-in-chief at Knopf, she became famous in the literary world, at the age of forty-three, after years of obscurity.
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