Literary Friction
Jenny Turner: Kathy Acker’s Ashes, 19 October 2017
After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
by Chris Kraus.
Allen Lane, 352 pp., £20, August 2017,978 1 63590 006 4 Show More
by Chris Kraus.
Allen Lane, 352 pp., £20, August 2017,
“... she said to a friend, ‘we’re good at media images.’ But as she wrote in her picaresque novel Don Quixote, ‘even a woman who has the soul of a pirate … who is a freak in our society, needs a home.’Acker, Kraus thinks, staked her all on a bid to become a ‘Great Writer as Countercultural Hero’, a position no woman had held before her, and I’m ... ”