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The Goldfish Won’t Complain<\/mark><\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The posthumous editorial process of Katherine Dunn’s Toad<\/em> <\/mark><\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Katherine Dunn died in 2016, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript of her novel,\u00a0Toad.\u00a0<\/em>This digital exhibit explores Naomi Huffman’s editorial process as she worked to bring Dunn’s novel to life and to print, appearing\u00a0November 1st, 2022, by MCDxFSG<\/a>. Working with Dunn’s original typescripts held at the Special Collections of Lewis & Clark College, Huffman revives Dunn’s singular voice and brings her darkly comic novel out of the archive and into the light to explore the dissolutions of youth, community, and gritty 1960s Portland to a new generation.\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing by Katherine Dunn, pen on paper, date unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not invulnerable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This section is the opening of the “Carlotta,” chapter, and provides the reader with early insight into Sally Gunnar as narrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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