Scholars and artists on the transgressive twentieth-century literary icon
Carla Harryman is the author of several books including Baby,
Gardener of Stars and There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn.
Avital Ronell teaches at New York University, The European Graduate
School and Paris VIII, and is the author of many books including
The Test Drive.
Amy Scholder is the Editorial Director of the Feminist Press.
Peter Wollen was Chair of the Department of Film, Television and
New Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. His other
books include Paris/Hollywood: Writings on Film and
Paris/Manhattan: Writings on Art.
Acker may be the true mother of Brat Pack writers like Brett Easton
Ellis, but there isn't disgust in her work ... Transgression is
never disgust-it is a way of surviving.
*Jeanette Winterson*
From the fringes, an outsider, Kathy Acker penetrated the heart of
American culture with a superb and wicked intellectual force we had
not seen before.
*Sapphire*
Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make
her a writer like no other I know.
*New York Times Book Review*
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