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Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [2] [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion.
Nov 28, 2022 · By stealing the work of others, the author remade herself—and reinvented what autobiographical writing could be. Maggie Doherty on Kathy Acker.
Kathy Acker (born April 18, 1948, New York, New York, U.S.—died Nov. 30, 1997, Tijuana, Mex.) was an American novelist whose writing style and subject matter reflect the so-called punk sensibility that emerged in the 1970s.
Novelist, essayist, and performance artist Kathy Acker was born and raised in New York City. She was educated at Brandeis University and the University of California at San Diego, where she earned her BA.
Mar 7, 2018 · In a show co-curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Performance Space New York celebrates the legacy of Kathy Acker’s post-punk feminism.
Nov 21, 2022 · Kathy Acker — proto-punk, tough-stemmed flower, ransacker of texts, literary heir to William S. Burroughs and Gertrude Stein, sex worker, loather of establishments, striver for maximum...
Aug 11, 2017 · An excerpt from Chris Kraus’s forthcoming literary biography of the late writer Kathy Acker, who died of cancer in 1997.
Nov 21, 2022 · In 'Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,' Jason McBride follows a writer who was easy to romanticize, hard to read, impossible to know.
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion.
After her premature death in 1997, of breast cancer aged just 50, her unpublished fiction and non-fiction works finally saw the light, readers were compiled (notably Essential Acker, selected by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper), and even a film essay, Barbara Casper’s punchy Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker?, was released in 2008.
