false 6304 321950 080213193X 9780802131935 60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173745352m/321950.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173745352s/321950.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321950.Blood_and_Guts_in_High_School_A_Novel 3.62 469 6304 3.68 1837 202 1978 16148 0802131794 9780802131799 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166716995m/16148.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166716995s/16148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148.Empire_of_the_Senseless 3.69 210 6304 3.68 1837 202 1988 16152 080213484X 9780802134844 30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166717001m/16152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166717001s/16152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16152.Pussy_King_of_the_Pirates 3.54 205 6304 3.68 1837 202 1996 16151 0802131557 9780802131553 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166717001m/16151.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166717001s/16151.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16151.Great_Expectations 3.54 190 6304 3.68 1837 202 1982 141358 0802131921 9780802131928 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172122425m/141358.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172122425s/141358.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141358.Don_Quixote_Which_Was_a_Dream 3.78 143 6304 3.68 1837 202 1986 16154 0517144867 9780517144862 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209682992m/16154.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209682992s/16154.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16154.My_Mother_Demonology 3.91 87 6304 3.68 1837 202 1994 146899 080213579X 9780802135797 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182552m/146899.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182552s/146899.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146899.In_Memoriam_to_Identity 3.72 86 6304 3.68 1837 202 1990 146885 0802135439 9780802135438 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182533m/146885.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182533s/146885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146885.Portrait_of_an_Eye_Three_Novels_The_Childlike_Life_of_the_Black_Tarantula_by_the_Black_Tarantula_I_Dreamt_I_Was_a_Nymphomaniac_Imaging_the_Adult_Life_Toulouse 3.68 84 6304 3.68 1837 202 1992 146897 0802131565 9780802131560 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182551m/146897.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182551s/146897.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146897.Literal_Madness 3.97 58 6304 3.68 1837 202 1987 16149 0802139213 9780802139214 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166716998m/16149.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166716998s/16149.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16149.Essential_Acker_The_Selected_Writings_of_Kathy_Acker 3.96 46 6304 3.68 1837 202 2002 102627 0936756683 9780936756684 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485916m/102627.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485916s/102627.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102627.Hannibal_Lecter_My_Father 3.61 41 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 envy, you don't eat cunt'...

Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and published in 1991, this handy, pocket-sized collection of some early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making, Hannibal Lecter, My Father gathers together Acker's raw, brilliant, emotional and cerebral texts from 1970s, including the self-published 'zines written under the nom-de-plume, The Black Tarantula. This volume features, among others, the full text of Acker's opera, The Birth of the Poet, produced at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1985, Algeria, 1979 and fragments of Politics, written at the age of 21. Also included is the longest and definitive interview Acker ever gave over two years: a chatty, intriguing and delightfully self-deprecating conversation with Semiotext(e) editor Sylvere Lotringer -- which is trippy enough in itself as Lotringer, besides being a real person, has appeared as a character in Acker's fiction. And last, but not least, is the full transcript of the decision reached by West Germany's Federal Inspection Office for Publications Harmful to Minors in which Acker's work was judged to be "not only youth-threatening but also dangerous to adults," and subsequently banned.

Acker is the sort of the writer that should be read first at 16, so that you can spend the rest of your life trying to figure her out; she confuses, infuriates, perplexes and then all of a sudden the writing seems to be in your bloodstream, like some kind of benign virus. She's definitely not for the easily offended -- but then, there are worse things in life than being offended. Such as the things that Acker writes about...]]> 6304 3.68 1837 202 1991 321951 1852424257 9781852424251 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173745354m/321951.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173745354s/321951.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321951.Bodies_of_Work_Essays 4.39 31 Portrait of an Eve, 1992; My Mother: Demonology, 1993; etc.) explores art, politics, and being in her first essay collection. Subjects are various, ranging from William Burroughs to Goya to San Francisco; many of the pieces have been published previously (prefaces to books, articles in Marxism Today, the Critical Quarterly, etc.). Despite the variety of subjects and sources, the collection is neatly structured: Essays are grouped agreeably by subject-'On Art and Artists,' 'The City,' 'Bodies of Work.' Though Acker says she aims to 'destroy' the essay form, she does more of what the form openly invites--to tinker and confess. For example, she interweaves stories into a piece on artist Nayland Blake and applies Wittgenstein's 'language games' to bodybuilding: 'In a gym, verbal language or language whose purpose is meaning occurs, if at all, only at the edge of becoming lost.' But she also reveals her current weightlifting goals and describes a childhood desire to be a pirate. Not surprisingly, her most accessible works are those written for a wide audience, particularly an illuminating essay for the Village Voice on film director Peter Greenaway and a moving piece for the MMLA on copyright in the age of the Internet. In all, these essays are serious and reflective of a discontented mind bent on deconstruction. Some may find dreary her tale of patriarchy, dualism, and linearity of time; her elliptical tales and stark sentences may lack immediate clarity. For sure, her essays aren't casually authoritative like Updike's or reassuringly religious like Dillard's. Read Acker when you're patient and don't want to be comforted--or even satisfied. An unthreatening introduction to a vexing writer.-Kirkus]]> 6304 3.68 1837 202 1996 598294 1873176635 9781873176634 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176152100m/598294.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176152100s/598294.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598294.Pussycat_Fever 3.30 30 --Jenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning.

"Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other"
--The New York Times Book Review

Kathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists, as a writer who constantly pushes at the frontiers of modern fiction, with each new work advancing further into uncharted territory. Pussycat Fever is a hallucinatory amalgam of emotion and desire. Join Pussycat and the anonymous narrator on a journey filled with sex and dangerous liaisons. Coming of age was never like this! Kathy's words are complemented by the artwork of Diane DiMassa -- best known for her long running comic book series Hothead Paisan -- and the intriguing collages of famed artist Freddie Baer.
]]> 6304 3.68 1837 202 159747 3.40 35 4 161810 4.07 511 84 1995 525259 1417723017 9781417723010 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220495961m/525259.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220495961s/525259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525259.Rip_Off_Red_Girl_Detective_and_the_Burning_Bombing_of_America 3.38 24 6304 3.68 1837 202 2002 146908 0044407483 9780044407485 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146908.Kathy_Goes_to_Haiti 3.61 18 6304 3.68 1837 202 1990 146906 1900850087 9781900850087 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182565m/146906.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182565s/146906.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146906.Eurydice_in_the_Underworld 4.21 14 6304 3.68 1837 202 1998 257579 1871592224 9781871592221 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173208248m/257579.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173208248s/257579.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257579.Rapid_Eye_1 4.27 11 2016842 4.08 13 4 6304 3.68 1837 202 1996 146912 0931106206 9780931106200 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193727662m/146912.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193727662s/146912.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146912.Childlike_Life_of_the_Black_Tarantula 4.00 6 6304 3.68 1837 202 1978 9667 0936556072 9780936556079 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9667.Hello_I_m_Erica_Jong 4.40 5 6304 3.68 1837 202 1982 146916 0931106214 9780931106217 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146916.Adult_Life_of_Toulouse 3.50 4 6304 3.68 1837 202 1978 146918 0856520594 9780856520594 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146918.Algeria_A_Series_of_Invocations_Because_Nothing_Else_Works 3.00 3 6304 3.68 1837 202 1984 1929990 0044403496 9780044403494 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1929990.Young_Lust 4.50 2 6304 3.68 1837 202 2005 1911646 0917061098 9780917061097 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911646.N_Y_C_in_Nineteen_Seventy_Nine 4.00 2 6304 3.68 1837 202 1981 146919 0936578009 9780936578002 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146919.I_dreamt_I_was_a_nymphomaniac_imagining 4.00 2 6304 3.68 1837 202 1980 1437121 1871592445 9781871592443 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183580702m/1437121.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183580702s/1437121.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1437121.Dust_A_Creation_Books_Reader 3.00 2 Contributors: Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, Jeremy Reed, Pierre Guyotat, Clint Hutzulak, Adele Olivia Gladwell, Stewart Home, James Havoc, Geraldine Monk, Aaron Williamson, Simon Whitechapel.

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-- The beginning of life is an egbert / Rebecca Camu.
-- Small lies / Kate Long.
-- The Shortest tale / Alasdair Gray.
-- Poem / Gaynor Cox.
-- Poems / Peter Jolliffe.
-- View form the rack / Duncan LcLean.
-- Angry young man: An interview with Bill Hopkins.
-- Profligates, Hungers / W.S. Milne.
-- Poems / James Mirana.
-- Poems / Fiona Pitt-Kethley.
-- Manana / Rane Roberts.
-- What do you make of this / James Seathwaite.
-- Poems / John Owen.
-- Poems / Rick Plewes.
-- Poems / Robin Robertson.
-- Poems / Ian Sinclair.
-- The thing about police stations / Muriel Spark.
-- One Minute stories: no. 22 / Alan Warner.
-- Island / Alan Wall.
-- Left for dead / Jakob Zaaiman.]]> 2774541 0.0 0 0 13093 3.67 4485 578 6304 3.68 1837 202 1996 6795940 4560044813 9784560044810 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6795940 0.0 0 3052761 0.0 0 0 6304 3.68 1837 202 2912371 0.0 0 0 1992 6795941 456004564X 9784560045640 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6795941 0.0 0 3052761 0.0 0 0 6304 3.68 1837 202 2912371 0.0 0 0 1994 6795942 4560045895 9784560045893 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6795942 0.0 0 3052761 0.0 0 0 6304 3.68 1837 202 2912371 0.0 0 0 1996