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Katherine Dunn’s story, “Rhonda Discovers Art<\/a>,” opens our new summer issue. (It’s generated excitement<\/a> among her fans and even made New York Magazine<\/em>‘s Approval Matrix<\/a> this week.) The seeds<\/a> for this story’s appearance in The Paris Review<\/em> were planted more than a decade ago, when I read Dunn’s incredible book, Geek Love<\/em>. Random House has just put the first chapter<\/a> of Geek Love<\/em> up on their website. If you haven’t read the book, here’s your chance to give it a try. I dare you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katherine Dunn’s story, “Rhonda Discovers Art,” opens our new summer issue. (It’s generated excitement among her fans and even made New York Magazine‘s Approval Matrix this week.) The seeds for this story’s appearance in The Paris Review were planted more than a decade ago, when I read Dunn’s incredible book, Geek Love. Random House has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[489],"tags":[253,293,255,96],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","tag-caitlin-roper","tag-katherin-dunn","tag-new-york-mag","tag-summer-issue-2010"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Book Like No Other by Caitlin Roper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 24, 2010 \u2013 Katherine Dunn's story, "Rhonda Discovers Art," opens our new summer issue. 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