Kathy Acker (née Karen Alexander) (18 April 1947 - 30 November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, and sex-positive feminist writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation, she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography.
Novels
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1973)
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac (1974)
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
The Complete Works of Constance De Jong (1975)
N. Y. C. in Nineteen Seventy-Nine (1981)
Hello, I'm Erica Jong (1982)
Great Expectations (1982)
Algeria (1984)
Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Don Quixote (1986)
Literal Madness (1987)
Empire of the Senseless (1988)
The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud (1989)
In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
Kathy Goes to Haiti (1990)
Rapid Eye (1992)
My Mother (1993)
Pussycat Fever (1995)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)
Collateral Damage (1997)
Eurydice in the Underworld (1998)
Artspace Is / Artspace Was (2001)
Rip-Off Red (2002)
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac (1974)
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
The Complete Works of Constance De Jong (1975)
N. Y. C. in Nineteen Seventy-Nine (1981)
Hello, I'm Erica Jong (1982)
Great Expectations (1982)
Algeria (1984)
Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Don Quixote (1986)
Literal Madness (1987)
Empire of the Senseless (1988)
The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud (1989)
In Memoriam to Identity (1990)
Kathy Goes to Haiti (1990)
Rapid Eye (1992)
My Mother (1993)
Pussycat Fever (1995)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1996)
Collateral Damage (1997)
Eurydice in the Underworld (1998)
Artspace Is / Artspace Was (2001)
Rip-Off Red (2002)
Collections
The Persian Poems (poems) (1980)
Implosion (1983)
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Portrait of an Eye (1992)
Bodies of Work (1996)
Essential Acker (2002)
Implosion (1983)
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Portrait of an Eye (1992)
Bodies of Work (1996)
Essential Acker (2002)
Novellas and Short Stories
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Kathy Acker recommends
Cows (1998)
(Little House on the Bowery, book 1)
Matthew Stokoe
"Stokoe's vision of Hell is a carnivore's nightmare. A powerful and all too possibly prophetic work."
Dirty Weekend (1991)
Helen Zahavi
"Above all, Dirty Weekend is a novel composed of language so gorgeous, so precise and witty, that I found myself laughing and thought, I should be crying instead. Nothing pleases me more than to be surprised into consciousness."
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