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1	Blood and Guts in High School more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love ... see all copies from $3.43! new only from $7.81! \| SVS
2	Literal Madness more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini imagines the Italian filmmaker and writer returning to the Roman homosexual hustlers he knew, in a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant). see all copies from $2.46! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Veronica's Revenge: Contemporqry Perspectives on Photography more books like this by Kathy Acker, Elizabeth Janus (Editor), Holger Liebs add to wishlist The Lambert Collection is one of the greatest collections of contemporary photographs in the world, made during a time in which photographic art has undergone fundamental changes in both its intentions and perceptions. This collection of essays by the foremost writers on international contemporary art accompanies full-page reproductions of 130 ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $25.99! \| first editions
4	Empire of the Senseless more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $7.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	My Mother: Demonology more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist In her 10th novel, Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma--sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Pussy, King of the Pirates more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist A loose reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Acker's radical interpretation is a masterfully directed, wild trek through real and imagined history, from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future. "Acker pushes language to the tension ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker more books like this by Kathy Acker, Amy Scholder (Editor), Dennis Cooper (Editor) add to wishlist The collection includes 23 pieces, all written between the years 1968 and 1996, and has an introduction by Jeanette Winterson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography more books like this by Ben L Reitman, Roger A Bruns (Foreword by), Kathy Acker (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.79! new only from $4.61! \| SVS
9	Disorderly Conduct more books like this by M Mark (Editor), Gary Indiana, Kathy Acker add to wishlist Designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the "VLS", the literary supplement of the American periodical "Village Voice", this anthology features 25 short stories of contemporary American fiction. The collection aims to present new writers and illustrate current trends in American literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.22! \| first editions
11	Portrait of an Eye more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Three short novels, including "The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula", "I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac", and "The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Eurydice in the underworld. by Kathy Acker add to wishlist This is an anthology of short fiction and other writings by Acker, including "Politics", her debut work written at the age of 21, and "The Translations of the Diaries of Laure the Schoolgirl", plus "The Birth of a Poet", a play in three acts. It also features an interview with Acker. see all copies from $32.63! new only from $163.86!
13 view cover	Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Three early works--heretofore unpublished--by Kathy Acker. see all copies from $3.08! new only from $3.66! \| first editions
14 view cover	Hannibal Lecter, My Father more books like this by Kathy Acker, Sylvère Lotringer add to wishlist A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making. see all copies from $4.84! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Literal Madness: Three Novels more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Bodies of Work more books like this by Kathy Acker, Cynthia Carr (Afterword by) add to wishlist Kathy Acker is widely considered one of the most important writers of the late 20th century. While her novels have become cult classics, establishing her influence on postmodernists, feminists, performers, punks and students of literature, her essays are available only in this comprehensive collection. "Bodies of Work" maps a wide-ranging cultural ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $9.59!
17 view cover	Artspace Is/Artspace Was more books like this by Kathy Acker (Contributions by), Ingrid Sischy (Contributions by), Dave Hickey (Contributions by) add to wishlist An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century. Supported by Artspace grants, the guerilla artists of Survival Research Laboratories terrorized San Fransisco with ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $23.94! \| SVS
18 view cover	Spread Wide more books like this by Buck Paul, Kathy Acker, Rebecca Stephens, MBE add to wishlist In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a period when Acker was writing "Great Expectations and trying to leave America for London, Buck confronts issues of appropriation, sampling, and plagiarism, relevant then and ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $21.12! \| SVS
19 view cover	Dust more books like this by Kathy Acker, Jack Hunter (Editor) add to wishlist "The crucifixion of modern literature, the resurrection of the imagination". With this manifesto, Creation Books was launched. Here is a selection from its pages past, present and future, hallucinated or anatomical texts by writers estranged from the bind of linear narrative and "literary" values, and the establishment which seeks to perpetuate it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Pussycat Fever more books like this by Kathy Acker, Freddie Baer (Illustrator), Diane DiMassa (Illustrator) add to wishlist "If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make."--Jenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning."Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other" --The New York Times Book ReviewKathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists, as a ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $54.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Bodies of Work: Essays more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Kathy Acker's essays cover a range of subjects, from body-building, through politics and science fiction, to the work of contemporary artists and philosophers. They offer insight into broader issues and figures, including Richard Prince, Kiki Smith, Nayland Blake, the Marquis de Sade, Peter Greenaway and Hannah Arendt. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22	Don Quixote more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! first editions
23 view cover	In Memoriam to Identity more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist A novel which draws on and solves both classic texts and Americana. For Rimbaud, it is the agony of love that confirms his identity, while his lover Verlaine is reluctant to sacrifice the facade of a bourgeois marriage for the relationship. By the author of "Blood and Guts in High School". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Implosion. by Kathy Acker add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! first editions
25	The Artist in Society: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities more books like this by Kathy Acker, Henry A Giroux, Michael Brenson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!

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