Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvre over a dozen novels and novellas inspired a generation of writers and artists.
Co-edited by Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, and Amy Scholder, Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker’s inimitable work, including Peter Wollen’s elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital Ronell’s erudite meditation on friendship and mourning. Together these essays by scholars and writers reveal Acker’s profound and innovative project, and the ways in which fiction can penetrate the heart of political and cultural life.
Links and Reviews
Gary Indiana. “Ackerville.” London Review of Books. December, 2006.