RaveThe Wilmette Week\"For those who have missed her voice, this collection offers both the nostalgia of returning to familiar terrain and the delight of discovering work previously hidden in the archives ... for readers unfamiliar with Dunn, Near Flesh also offers a surprisingly strong introduction to her voice and obsessions. These stories span decades of her career, yet they feel strikingly cohesive, united by her recurring themes of bodily transformation, female interiority, and the uncanny lurking beneath everyday life ... Near Flesh may sound like literary necromancy to the uninitiated, but for devoted fans, it is pure Dunn—dark, funny, and compulsively readable. Even from beyond, her voice still cuts sharp. The collection reminds us why she remains one of Portland’s most treasured literary figures: a writer who found beauty in the grotesque, comedy in the horrific, and humanity in the most unlikely of places.\
