Acker, Kathy

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Kathy Acker
(née Karen Alexander)
(1947-1997)

Select Bibliography:

fiction:

Politics (1972)
Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective (1973)
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1973)
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (1974)
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Kathy Goes to Haiti (1978)
N.Y.C. in 1979 (1981)
Great Expectations (1982)
My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1983)
Algeria: A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works (1984)
Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986)
Florida (1987)
Empire of the Senseless (1988)
In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
My Mother: Demonology (1994)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)

essays:

"Lust," in The Seven Deadly Sins, ed. Alison Fell (1988)
"Humility," in The Seven Cardinal Virtues, ed. Alison Fell (1990)
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Dust. Essays (1995)
Bodies of Work: Essays (1997)
Eurydice in the Underworld (1997)

collections:

Blood and Guts in High School, plus two: Great Expectations; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1984)
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida (1987)
Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama (1987)
Young Lust: Kathy Goes to Haiti; The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec; Florida (1989)
Portrait of an Eye: Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining; The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1992)
Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America (2002)
Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker, ed. Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper (2002)

recordings:

Pussycat Fever (1995)
Redoing Childhood (2000)

Biography & Secondary Literature:

Hardin, Michael, ed. Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker. San Diego, CA: Hyperbole / San Diego State University Press, 2004.

Harryman, Carla , Avital Ronell, & Amy Scholder, ed. Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker. London: Verso, 2006.

Kadrey, Richard. "Black Tarantula: The Intense Life and Uncompromising Death of Renegade Writer Kathy Acker." Salon (3 Dec. 1997).

Ross, Jack. "Kathy Goes to Mexico: In Memoriam Kathy Acker, d. 30/11/97." Pander 5 (1998): 26-27.

Sirius, R U. "Kathy Acker: Where Does She Get Off? An Interview." Wired (1994).

Viegener, Matias. "Matias Speaks." (1997).

X, Rosie. "Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance; or, How to be a Pirate on–line and channel your energies so as to remember your dream... Kathy Acker interviewed." Geekgirl (1995).

Homepages & Online Information:

Wikipedia entry

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