AFTER KATHY ACKER

Kathy Acker: Rich girl, street punk, scholar, stripper, victim, media-whore ... and cultural icon.The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, many of them created by her. Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50, Acker's legend has faded, but her writing has become clearer.A few years ago, the writer Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, found that her own ex periences were becoming more and more like Kathy's. She began writing about Acker 'through the distance, but with this incredible fr isson of ...[Read more]