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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini imagines the Italian filmmaker and writer returning to the Roman homosexual hustlers he knew, in a &amp;#8220;scathing commentary on false values in art&amp;#8221; (The Hartford Courant). &lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd been curious about Kathy Acker; I knew of her work by reputation only: placement in the indie/queer section in the late 90s at Powells Bookstore in Portland, Ore.<br/><br/>If you were gay, bi, pierced, curious, protoemo, a mopey pomo or overselfmedicated on Prozac and taking a lot of long driv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61530371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three novels by Kathy Acker.  In Kathy Goes to Haiti, the protagonist, a white girl named Kathy, goes to Haiti.  There, she finds many males suggesting themselves as possible boyfriends or husbands.  They tell her it’s because women are not supposed to be independent in Haiti.  Kathy starts seeing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66943221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read only one of the novellas in the book: &quot;My Life, My Death by Pier Paolo Pasolini.&quot; ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really love Kathy Goes to Haiti, the others less so ...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read 115 pages all the way through of Literal Madness before I gave up on it. There are 3 stories in the book, and I only liked the first one: Kathy Goes To Haiti. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm, I *want* to love Kathy Acker. I think I need to read her in a class setting. I started on <em>Kathy Goes to Haiti</em> but just couldn't get down with it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads like the inside of my brain.]]></body>
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