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  • Great Expectations
    Acker, Kathy
    Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when "Great Expectations" was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic--splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat’s sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts--alongside Acker’s trademark pithy dialogue, as well as ...

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  • In Memoriam to Identity
    Acker, Kathy
    In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in or...

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  • My Mother
    Acker, Kathy
    Based loosely on the relationship between Colette Peignot and Georges Bataille, My Mother: Demonology is the powerful story of a woman's struggle with the contradictory impulses for love and solitude. At the dawn of her adult life, Laure becomes involved in a passionate and all-consuming love affair with her companion, B. But this ultimately leaves her dissatisfied, as she ackn...

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  • Essential Acker
    Acker, Kathy / Scholder, Amy
    Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a lit...

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  • Portrait of an Eye, The
    Acker, Kathy
    Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know. -New York Times Book ReviewThe Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Kathy Acker's debut and the first in this three-novel collection, began as an episodic handmade pamphlet that Acker mailed out to influential writers and artists whose addresses she managed to get her hands ...

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  • Spread Wide
    Acker, Kathy / Buck, 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 period when Acker was writing Great Expectations and trying to leave America for London, Buck confronts issues of appropriation, sampling, and plagiarism, relevant then and now. Spread Wide works to spread...

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  • Literal madness
    Acker, Kathy

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  • Blood and Guts in High School: Anniversary...
    Acker, Kathy
    A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent voice of post-punk feminism. With 2017 marking the 70th anniversary of her birth, as well as the 10th year since her death this transgressive work of philosophical, political, and sexual insight-...

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  • Don Quixote
    Acker, Kathy
    Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing "the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which is to love."In this visionary world, Don Quixote journeys through American history to the final days of the Nixon administration, passing on the way through a New York re...

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  • Aborto en la escuela
    Acker, Kathy
    Aborto en la escuela (1984) es su obra definitiva, la novela que acabó de encumbrarla. Janey, su protagonista, se va de casa porque su padre –que también es su amante– se ha liado con otra mujer, y emprende un largo viaje hacia el fin de la noche narrado mediante todo tipo de recursos: «cut-ups» a o Burroughs, reescrituras y parodias de otros escritores (Hawthorne y Sade, Shake...

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  • Grandes esperanzas
    Acker, Kathy
    Pip cambia de identidad, sexo y época en esta reescritura punk de Grandes esperanzas. Conocido pero a la vez extraño al lector, nuestro narrador se traslada a la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de 1980, donde se convertirá, por turnos, en marinero, pira. ...

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  • Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective
    Acker, Kathy

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  • I'm Very into You
    Acker, Kathy / Wark, McKenzie
    The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary."Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child's play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-p...

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