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Blood and Guts in High School

Kathy Acker

Penguin

'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world'\nPip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity, porn, sadism and art. This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.\n'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice\n'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. Burroughs

Great Expectations

Penguin Classics

Blood and guts in high school, plus two (Picador)

Macmillan

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.

Don Quixote (Paladin Books)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Paladin

Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life. Her vision questions everything we take for granted -- the authority of parents, government, and the law; sexuality and the policing of desire -- and puts in its place a universe of polymorphous perversity and shameless, playful freakery. Spanning Acker's '70s punk interventions through more than a dozen major novels, Essential Acker is an indispensable overview of the work of this distinctive American writer and a reminder of her challenge to and influence on writers of the future. "Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know." -- Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review

Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker (Acker, Kathy)

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Dennis Cooper

Amy Scholder

United States

GROVE PRESS

Algeria: A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works

Short Stories & Anthologies

Aloes Books

The body is in pain. The collective body is in agony. As much as the isolated inner cities, as much as U. S. foreign policy, as much as institutionalized voodoo economics, it is the flesh and blood body which is a site of oppression and potential rebellion in the United States. Consider this image recalled by Dennis Barrie, director of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. One day in 1990, while the Center was displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment," about forty uniformed police officers walked into the Center and forcibly removed the patrons simply because they were looking at Mapplethorpe's photos. It is that image, Barrie says, "that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Because that isn't our country, or it shouldn't be our country."

Fiction International 22: Pornography & Censorship

Joyce Carol Oates

et.al.

Samuel R. Delany

Robert, Coover

Harold Jaffe

Edith, Wharton

Raymond Federman

Ronald Sukenik

Contemporary

San Diego State Univ

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.

Eurydice in the Underworld

Arcadia Books

Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject matter (fairytales, disasters, sex, horror, and surrealism) and in her disquieting interpretations of well-established photographic genres, such as film stills, fashion photography, and society portraiture. This richly illustrated publication seeks to highlight and acknowledge these aspects of her work based on selected examples and accompanied by texts by well-known authors, filmmakers, and artists who likewise deal with the grotesque, the uncanny, and the extraordinary in their artistic practice.(English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3487-5) Exhibition schedule: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo, May 4–September 8, 2013 | Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October 19, 2013 | Kunsthaus Zürich, June 2014

Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors

Miranda July

Sjón

Karl Ove Knausgård

Sara Stridsberg

Sibylle Berg

Lars Norén

Arts & Photography

Hatje Cantz Verlag

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