After Kathy Acker: A Biography

Author(s): Chris Kraus

Biography

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore. The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself.


In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged.  At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.  Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late 20th century's most significant artistic enterprises.


Product Information

Chris Kraus is the author of I Love Dick; Aliens and Anorexia; Torpor; Summer of Hate and two books of cultural criticism. She was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and teaches writing at European Graduate School.

General Fields

  • : 9780141986654
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : April 2018
  • : April 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chris Kraus
  • : Paperback