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    Blood and Guts in High School

    Kathy Acker

    The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group perform to the sounds of a…

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    Pussy King of the Pirates (Reissue): 25th Anniversary Edition

    Kathy Acker

    It feels more contemporary, more necessary, and more dangerous than it did even when Kathy published it. –Neil Gaiman, from the new introduction

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    New York City in 1979

    Kathy Acker

    Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

    ‘INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST…

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    The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

    Jack Skelley

    The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles.

    Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley’s secretly legendary novel is…

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    After Kathy Acker: A Biography

    Chris Kraus

    The first authorized biography of the avant-garde punk writer Kathy Acker, a legend in her own time, by the author of the bestselling I Love Dick

    Rich girl, street punk…

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    Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

    Kathy Acker

    The incredible variety of Acker’s body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was…

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    Don Quixote

    Kathy Acker

    In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America.

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    The Portrait of an Eye

    Kathy Acker

    Three early, self-published novels from Kathy Acker reissued with an original introduction by Kate Zambreno, the author of Heroines, Green Girl, Screen Tests, and more.

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    Literal Madness

    Kathy Acker

    My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini imagines the Italian filmmaker and writer returning to the Roman homosexual hustlers he knew, in a scathing commentary on false values in…

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    Great Expectations (Reissue)

    Kathy Acker

    Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, creating variations on…

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    Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning

    Kathy Acker

    An essential compendium on the work, life and legacy of the transgressive autofiction pioneer

    The American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century…

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    Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

    McKenzie Wark

    McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker’s writing to outline Acker’s philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing…

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    Great Expectations

    Kathy Acker

    Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s cherished beliefs about life and art.

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    Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible

    Georgina Colby

    In ‘Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible’, Georgina Colby explores Acker’s compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997.

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    Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible

    Georgina Colby

    In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker’s compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997.

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    Kathy Acker: Punk Writer

    Margaret Henderson

    This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism and feminism…

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    Kathy Acker: Punk Writer

    Margaret Henderson

    This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism and feminism…

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    Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

    Jason McBride

    The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature.

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    The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker

    Michael Du Plessis

    Book 5 of 6 in the TrenchArt Surplus Series –colophon.

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    After Kathy Acker - A Literary Biography

    Chris Kraus,Sylvere Lotringer

    The first authorized biography of postmodernism’s literary hero, Kathy Acker.

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    Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker

    Kathy Acker was one of the original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. This is a collection of essays on Acker’s work, including Peter Wollen’s primer, and…

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    Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and other conversations

    Kathy Acker

    Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon, and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncompromising, and often misunderstood 30-year career.

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    Eat Your Mind

    Jason McBride

    The first full-scale, authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th century American literature

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    The Politics of Kathy Acker: Revolution and the Avant-Garde

    Emilia Borowska

    Explores revolutionary politics in the work of one of America’s most important avant-garde writers.

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    The Politics of Kathy Acker: Revolution and the Avant-Garde

    Emilia Borowska

    This study boldly argues for Acker’s revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune…

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    Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

    McKenzie Wark

    McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker’s writing to outline Acker’s philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing…

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    Aborto En La Escuela

    Kathy Acker

    In the Mexican city of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny her boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to…

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    Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America

    Kathy Acker

    Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Acker’s writing career. Published together here, they reveal a young…

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    Pussy, King of the Pirates

    Kathy Acker

    A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a dizzyingly imaginative foray through world history, literature, and language itself.

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    Literal Madness: Three Novels

    Kathy Acker

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    Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

    Jason McBride

    The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature.Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was a rare and…

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    Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter

    Nicola Pitchford

    Tactical Readings analyzes the work of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter and argues for putting feminist practices of reading at the center of a revitalized concept of postmodernism. In Acker’s…

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    Parodistic Intertextuality and Intermediality in Postmodern American Fiction: Robert Coover and Kathy Acker

    Matthias Voller

    Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Reading postmodern fiction - once a term limited to denote a decidedly US-American tendency in contemporary literature but now applicable to a whole range of works that have…

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    Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo

    Jeffrey Ebbesen

    First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo

    Jeffrey Ebbesen

    Explores the work of three traditionally postmodern authors, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker and Don Delillo to highlight some significant flaws in the way postmodernism is categorized. This work contends that…

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    Kathy: Buck Acker (Paul)

    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a…

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    Blood and Guts in High School

    Kathy Acker

    The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group perform to the sounds of a…

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    Hannibal Lecter, My Father

    Kathy Acker

    A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making.

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    I’m Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996

    Kathy Acker,McKenzie Wark (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research)

    The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.

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    The Fragmented Female Body and Identity: The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Perez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker

    Pamela B. June

    Explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels. This book emphasizes the different and nuanced forms of oppression each woman faces.

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    Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors

    An in-depth look at the disturbing and abject sides of the American photo artist’s oeuvre

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