Calling all Potterheads, Gleeks, Twihards and Trekkies: There’s a new dating show just for you! Geek Love, premiering tonight on TLC, shows the life of geeks looking for love with the help of the Geek ...

Geek Love debuts tonight on TLC at 9 p.m. Eastern. I had my concerns going into Geek Love, not least the worrisome fact of its leading into All-American Muslim, which I’m boycotting—I no longer let ...

Geek Love was the book written in Portland that most revealed the character of Portland—a big-hearted, heartsick place filled with darkness and obsessed with oddity. Katherine Dunn's 1989 novel was ...

In 2011 TLC aired Geek Love, a reality series that spotlighted "sci-fi speed dating" sessions held at Comic-Con. While certain parts made me roll my eyes, overall, the show had good intentions and ...

Some novels grow so popular that they overwhelm a writer’s career. Like one jagged peak in a range of well-proportioned hills, the novel towers over the author’s other books and holds them in shadow.

There is something tangibly unsettling about a carnival: It is a space that inspires mystery and magic; that evokes danger and darkness and suspense. Even the etymology of the word — a season or ...

Call it the romance of the nerds. A group of girl geeks will unveil a collection of nerdy love stories next week, telling tales of romance, sex, and dating from a previously unheard female perspective ...

This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. The late Portland writer, Katherine Dunn, the author of “Geek Love”, ...

Portland author Katherine Dunn, whose 1989 novel “Geek Love” influenced a generation of writers, has died at 70 of complications from lung cancer. Dunn was a journalist – she wrote extensively about ...

In a famous scene in the 1982 movie Diner, Eddie (played by Steve Guttenberg) makes his wife-to-be pass a football trivia quiz before he’ll agree to marry her. Me, I’m a fantasy and gaming geek, not a ...