Acker, Kathy 1948-1997

Overview

Works:	340 works in 848 publications in 11 languages and 14,829 library holdings
Genres:	Experimental fiction Fiction Science fiction Interviews Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc Detective and mystery fiction Graphic novels Records and correspondence Internet videos
Roles:	Author, Lyricist, Performer, Contributor, Other, Writer of accompanying material, Arranger, Editor, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Librettist, Interviewee, Correspondent, Illustrator, Scenarist, Interviewer
Classifications:	PS3551.C44, 813.54

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Kathy Acker

Star authors : literary celebrity in America by Joe Moran( )
Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker by Maureen Frances Curtin( )
Tactical readings : feminist postmodernism in the novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter by Nicola Pitchford( )
Kathy Acker : writing the impossible by Georgina Colby( )
Kathy Acker and transnationalism by Polina Mackay( )

After Kathy Acker : a literary biography by Chris Kraus( Book )
Lust for life : on the writings of Kathy Acker( Book )
Postmodernism and its others : the fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo by Jeffrey Ebbesen( Book )
Blood and guts in high school by Kathy Acker( Book )
Twentieth-Century literary criticism. Volume 191 by Lawrence J Trudeau( )
I'm very into you : correspondence, 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker( Book )
Hannibal Lecter, my father by Kathy Acker( Book )
Writers talk : Kathy Acker with Angela McRobbie by Kathy Acker( Visual )
Learning for revolution : the work of Kathy Acker by Spencer Dew( Book )
Acker by Douglas A Martin( Book )
Devouring institutions( Book )
Kathy Acker : the last interview and other conversations by Kathy Acker( Book )
Interpreting radical metaphor in the experimental fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker by Victoria De Zwaan( Book )
Who's afraid of Kathy Acker?( Visual )
The childlike life of the Black Tarantula by Kathy Acker( Book )

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Most widely held works by Kathy Acker

Empire of the senseless by Kathy Acker( Book )

30 editions published between 1988 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Science fiction-roman om to unge på en desperat rejse fra New Yorks slumkvarter til Algeriet og Paris, hvor de møder et afsindigt kaos af vold, sex og narko

Don Quixote, which was a dream by Kathy Acker( Book )

47 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Experimentele roman waarin een Amerikaanse vrouwelijke Quichot met haar hond aan haar zijde de discriminatie bestrijdt

In memoriam to identity by Kathy Acker( Book )

27 editions published between 1990 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Great expectations by Kathy Acker( Book )

30 editions published between 1982 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 415 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a punk, fairy-tale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator - familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. S/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw

My mother : demonology by Kathy Acker( Book )

20 editions published between 1993 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Blood and guts in high school by Kathy Acker( Book )

39 editions published between 1978 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Janey 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. One day she found a pencil stub and a 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 with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover

The artist in society : rights, roles, and responsibilities by Carol Becker( Book )

3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Henri A. Giroux: Borderline artists, cultural workers and the crisis of democracy ; Page Dubois : Democracy and the idea of the artist ;Honu K. Bhabha : The enchantment of art; Kathy Acker: proposition one; Michael Erre Dyson: Gangsta rap; Carol Becker: Survival of the artist in the new political climate; Michael Brenson: Securing a place for the artist in society

Essential Acker : the selected writings of Kathy Acker by Kathy Acker( Book )

5 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The incredible variety of AckerUs body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th 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

Pussy, king of the pirates by Kathy Acker( Book )

18 editions published between 1996 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island, in which two prostitutes--O and Ange--use their earnings to hire a band of women pirates to mount an expedition to find treasure. A tale of sex and sado-masochism with thoughts on the human condition. By the author of My Mother: Demonology

Bodies of work : essays by Kathy Acker( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 2006 in English and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Bodies of work maps a wide-ranging cultural territory. From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, they reflect and challenge the times in which we live. Matching guts with theory, anger with compassion, Acker offers original views on such subjects as diverse as the films of Peter Greenaway, the paintings of Goya, the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and copyright in the age of internet." --Book cover

Portrait of an eye : three novels by Kathy Acker( Book )

14 editions published between 1973 and 1998 in English and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Literal madness : three novels by Kathy Acker( Book )

10 editions published between 1987 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America : the destruction of the U.S. by Kathy Acker( Book )

4 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--Jacket

Eurydice in the underworld by Kathy Acker( Book )

9 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and Turkish and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Seven cardinal virtues by Kathy Acker( Book )

4 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Writers talk : William Burroughs with Kathy Acker by William S Burroughs( Visual )

3 editions published between 2012 and 2014 in English and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Topics discussed in the interview: --Early connection with the beats . --Verbal and visual thinking. --Political ramifications of the cut-up method. --Background to 'Junkie', 'Queer', and 'The Naked Lunch'

The seven deadly sins by Elbridge S Brooks( Book )

3 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Algeria : a series of invocations because nothing else works by Kathy Acker( )

5 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and French and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Blood and guts in high school : plus two by Kathy Acker( Book )

15 editions published between 1984 and 1987 in English and German and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume presents three works by Kathy Acker, renowned for works that combine graphic eroticism with detailed politics and what the author calls 'pop content' including expositions of anti-social values and attacks on religion, education, and government

New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker( Book )

14 editions published between 1979 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 96 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker

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