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,
“... persuade her at least to ring her nearest relative and let her know she was ill.Acker grew up in Sutton Place in Manhattan, and was a star pupil at the Lenox School, at that time ‘the only “white glove” Upper East Side private girls’ school that was widely open to Jews’. Classmates remember her as academically brilliant – ‘Modern Library ... ”