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• Baking for Bookworms: Buttered Popcorn from Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love

  January 9, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking for bookworms, buttered popcorn, Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, popcorn, snacks

  I wanted to choose a food from this book that reflected the circus atmosphere, and there are few foods that do that better than fresh buttery popcorn. The first mention of popcorn occurs at the very beginning of the novel, when the narrator, the hunchbacked Oly, describes the ‘good days’ of her youth at the…