Kathy Acker

• 1988
• / Science Fiction
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Originally published in 1988, Empire of the Senseless marked a turning point in Acker''s wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong obsessions: childhood and trauma, language and s...

• Feb-1988
• / Literary
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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, ...

• Aug-1990
• / General Fiction
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When Kathy goes to Haiti for a holiday she discovers that every man she meets wants to be her boyfriend. Kathy dives into a sexual whirlpool in pursuit of love, craving more and more sex, for once is never enough....

• Jun-1991
• / General Fiction
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You can say I write stories with sex and violence and therefore my writing isn't worth considering because it uses content much less lots of content. Well, I tell you this: 'Prickly race, who know nothing except how to eat out your hearts with env...

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction
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"In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation. . . . Kathy Acker has invented a form of secret historiography, a language of shock and sensation t...

• Jul-1993
• / General Fiction
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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 invo...

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
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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 th...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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“Kathy Acker’s writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer.” -- Jeanette Winterson, New York Times�"bestselling authorA masterpiece of surrealist...

• Feb-1994
• / Erotica
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• Feb-1994
• / Literary
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A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: “Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.” -- Catherine Texier, author of VictorineKathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal M...

• Jan-1997
• / Literary
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• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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"If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make." -- Jenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning."Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other...

• Sep-2002
• / Suspense
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Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Kathy Acker's writing career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Acker's typical literary playf...

• Oct-2002
• / Literary
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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...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2021
• / Literary
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Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be so...