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	Kathy Acker (1945-1997)
		Kathy Acker passed away, November 30, 1997, as reported in the CTHEORY journal.
		As a memorial to Kathy we are publishing Act III of Requiem, the last writing she gave us to publish.
		In Memoriam to Oblivion: The Kathy Acker Hoame Paige (Idaho)
	www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp /ishikawa/amlit/a/acker21.htm (125 words)

	Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker - et al Kathy Acker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.biblio.com /books/68435851.html (364 words)

	Kathy Acker
		She was born Kathy Alexander, the kind of German Jew that is known by real New Yorkers as "Our Crowd" - her family, the Alexanders, along with the Lehmans, Loebs, Ochs etc. were the best educated, wealthiest, and most sophisticated Jews in the world.
		Kathy was a profound intellectual, able to produce work that incorporated so many different dimensions of thought, simultaneously, that it eclipsed the capacities of many people.
		And in Kathy's case, her background and financial cushion gave her a sense of entitlement that was unreasonable.
	pavementmagazine.com /kathyacker.html (1445 words)

	Amazon.ca: Literal Madness: Books: Kathy Acker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		KATHY is a middle-class, though she has no money, American white girl, twenty-nine years of age, no lovers and no prospects of money, who doesn't believe in anyone or anything. Read the first page
		When her alter-ego "Kathy" discovers that Haiti is more a state of mind than a Caribbean island, the disjuncture in the text becomes sensible and senseless at the same time.
		Literal Madness is a great introduction to these questions for those willing to suspend their need for normal narrative development and to follow Acker through an acrobatics of word and scene, an at times insane juxtaposition of seemingly disparate materials that echo the disparity of our everyday lives and of our dreams.
	www.amazon.ca /Literal-Madness-Kathy-Acker/dp/0802131565 (521 words)

	t r e v o r d o d g e: I Miss Kathy Acker
		Most humbling, though, is the appearance of a previously-unpublished piece by Kathy Acker titled "The Seattle Book." While researching Devouring Institutions at Duke's Sallie Bingham archive, Michael Hardin stumbled upon the story and worked with Acker's literary estate to bring it out.
		Acker's deliberate diffusion of her own thoughts and experiences into fiction is, for many readers, the double-edged sword that makes her work both accessible and inpenetrable.
		For me, this is why my experiences reading Acker are almost identical to "knowing" her; in this regard, she used language to blur the very fabric of reality, inhabiting and eradicating space and time and life and death.
	home.comcast.net /~trevordodge/2005/06/i-miss-kathy-acker.html (526 words)

	Body bildung - interview with author Kathy Acker - Interview ArtForum - Find Articles
		Kathy Acker was on tour this summer and fall promoting her new book, My Mother: Demonology, a Novel.
		What I've always found so strong and futural about Acker's work is its close with adolescence, not as the phase or phrase everyone has to get beyond rather than stuck on, but as a channel that is always there, ready to be tuned or turned into, for example whenever you're in groups.
		KATHY ACKER: It started out as my fascination with Laure's work and with Bataille, and with wondering what that generation, two generations ago, was thinking.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n6_v32/ai_15204420 (907 words)

	Kathy Acker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kathy Acker (18 April 1947 in Manhattan—30 November 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwrite, essayist, poète maudit and sex-positive feminist writer.
		Acker's first work appeared in print as part of the burgeoning New York literary underground of the mid-1970s and her first writings were profoundly influenced by her experiences working for a few month as a stripper.
		Born and raised in New York City, novelist, poet and performance artist Kathy Acker came to be closely associated with the punk movement of the 1970s and 80s that affected much of the culture in and around Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kathy_Acker (1848 words)

	K A T H Y A C K E R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rejecting Acker, which is more prevalent that addressing her, allows the academy not to confront its own complicity in the capitalist machine.
		In her essay Writing, Identity, and Copyright in the Net Age, Acker testifies to the almost abhorrent necessity of internet publishing in a society which has become ignorant of its history and hostile towards its artists.
		A major thread of Rice's book wrestles with Acker's death, in a manner and methodology that is both familiar to those who knew her, as well as grounded in the theoretical skitterings and literary baggage that so heavily informs her work.
	www.calarts.edu /~acker (2934 words)

	Student Zone: On-line Response #8: Octavia BUTLER & Kathy ACKER
		Acker says, "Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified."
		Although Kathy Acker’s novel “Empire of the Senseless” also deals with gender and power reversals, she uses these reversals to illustrate a “cyberpunk” theme.
		This applies to the Acker piece as well, in terms of having to choose sides between Capitalism and Terrorism.
	www.benortiz.com /classes/archives/000183.php (5675 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker: Books: Amy Scholder,Carla Harryman,Avital Ronell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 - has inspired a generation of writers and artists.
		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.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lust-Life-Writings-Kathy-Acker/dp/184467066X (384 words)

	Amazon.com: Bodies of Work: Essays: Books: Kathy Acker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Not surprisingly, her most accessible works are those written for a wide audience, particularly an illuminating essay for the Village Voice on film director Peter Greenaway and a moving piece for the MMLA on copyright in the age of the Internet.
		Despite the variety of subjects and sources, the collection is neatly structured: Essays are grouped agreeably by subject-'On Art and Artists,' 'The City,' 'Bodies of Work.' Though Acker says she aims to 'destroy' the essay form, she does more of what the form openly invites--to tinker and confess.
		Acker is well known for her curious brand of W.S. Burroughsian hypertextual fiction.
	www.amazon.com /Bodies-Work-Essays-Kathy-Acker/dp/1852424257 (1435 words)

	Bohemian Ink : Kathy Acker
		With enervating experimentation but touching directness, postmodern novelist Acker (Portrait of an Eve, 1992; My Mother: Demonology, 1993; etc.) explores art, politics, and being in her first essay collection.
		Despite the variety of subjects and sources, the collection is neatly structured: Essays are grouped agreeably by subject--``On Art and Artists,'' ``The City,'' ``Bodies of Work.'' Though Acker says she aims to ``destroy'' the essay form, she does more of what the form openly invites--to tinker and confess.
		Just as in her novels, you are simultaneously thrown off balance and yet riveted, never quite knowing whether she is going to give you a straight answer or about to go off at a bizarre, but somehow connected, tangent".
	www.levity.com /corduroy/acker.htm (491 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Collection: Kathy Acker, Transatlanticism and the Transnational (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Papers are invited for a new collection on the work of Kathy Acker, addressing Acker's work in relation to the transatlantic and the transnational.
		By locating Acker's writing primarily through its engagement with multiple literary traditions and histories, and crossing of national, cultural and artistic boundaries, this collection will explore the ways in which Acker's work expands our understanding of global cultural exchange in the contemporary world.
		Acker & Algeria Representations of Islam & the Arabic context Empire & post-empire
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/007796.html (228 words)

	Kathy Acker Criticism
		In the following essay, Friedman provides an overview of the intellectual, cultural, and literary contexts in which Acker's fiction, according to Friedman, is "designed to be jaws steadily devouring—often to readers' horror and certainly to their discomfort (which is part of the strategy)—the mindset, if not the mind of Western culture."
		In the following essay, Phillips explores the significance of Acker's allusions to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter in Blood and Guts in High School.
		In the following essay, Peters explores the narrative techniques and language of dominance and submission employed by Acker to subvert patriarchal hierarchies and conventional notions of sexual identity.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Kathy_Acker (328 words)

	Kathy Acker Interview
		And Acker is this person I hang with sometimes.
		What's cool is that we can talk about anything and nobody gets uptight (though she does decide that I'm a sexist pig sometimes).
		Kathy Acker: So this is like a serious interview...
	www.altx.com /io/acker1.html (658 words)

	Student Zone: On-line Response #8: Octavia BUTLER & Kathy ACKER
		Acker’s “Empire of the Senseless” is a tough read.
		Acker’s writing has a Burroughs’ flavor such as the Legal Aid comment, “But since the Legal Aid never showed up in Court, or for that matter never anywhere else” a political
		Kathy Acker also addresses gender and race blurring as she introduces Abhor, a part-robot, part-human fl female and Thivai, a white male pirate- both on a quest against normality and societal conformity.
	www.benortiz.com /classes/archives/000306.php (5004 words)

	Kathy Acker : Redoing Childhood - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Acker's parts were recorded for Willner in 1993, but it's not clear from the liner notes how much of this album was completed before Acker's death.
		However, unlike similar posthumous efforts -- the Doors' dismal An American Prayer comes immediately to mind -- the music meshes perfectly with Acker's rhythmic, intense readings and often chilling imagery.
		Like all of Acker's work, Redoing Childhood is not for the timid or the easily squicked, but the music and words occasionally coalesce into moments of strange beauty.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,903884,00.html (156 words)

	Scriptorium - Kathy Acker
		This section is dedicated to a future Scriptorium Page on Kathy Acker.
		If you are a writer with expertise in the life and works of Kathy Acker, and you’d be interested in helping The Modern Word expand, please look at the Scriptorium submission guidelines.
		Google News Search – News groups related to Kathy Acker.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/acker.html (131 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Kathy Acker
		KATHY ACKER: There's a certain amount of ironic distance between me and Don Quixote, a distance that varies, but at that point in the text, I'd say, yeah, I am.
		It lists Black Tarantula by an author called Black Tarantula and then has a listing for Black Tarantula by Kathy Acker.
		When I appeared on a radio program, the announcer said, "We now have Kathy Acker, the author of Blood and Guts.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_acker.html (4660 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| Kathy Acker
		Acker was also an opera librettist, a playwright, a performer, a journalist, and a screenwriter working with such talents as playwright and director Richard Foreman.
		During the last year of her life she wrote "The Gift of Disease," an article chronicling her experience with breast cancer for the London Guardian (Jan 1997).
		Listen now to this recording of Acker performing "President Bush" from the CD "Redoing Childhood," courtesy of Kill Rock Stars.
	www.salon.com /audio/2000/10/05/acker (299 words)

	Lust for Life: Kathy Acker
		Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvre — over a dozen novels and novellas — has inspired a generation of writers and artists.
		“From the fringes, an outsider, Kathy Acker penetrated the heart of American culture with a superb and wicked intellectual force we had not seen before.” — Sapphire
		“Acker may be the true mother of Brat Pack writers like Brett Easton Ellis, but there isn’t disgust in her work...
	www.versobooks.com /books/nopqrs/s-titles/scholder_kathy_acker.shtml (263 words)

	Kathy Acker — Infoplease.com
		Kathy Acker - Kathy Acker novelist, performance artist an eccentric artist who derived inspiration from writer...
		Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter.(Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale)(Book Review)...
		Cyberpunk pilgrimages: Kathy Acker inside/outside of the sublime.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0758961.html (221 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > Lust for Life: The Writings of Kathy Acker Symposium at NYU to Explore ...
		Lust for Life: The Writings of Kathy Acker Symposium at NYU to Explore Postmodern Writer’S Legacy
		“Lust for Life: The Writings of Kathy Acker,” a symposium to take place at New York University on November 7 and 8, will explore Acker’s work as a postmodern writer and feminist and her legacy for writers and artists today.
		It is planned in conjunction with the publication of Essential Acker: The Kathy Acker Reader, edited by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper and forthcoming from Grove Press, and with an exhibition of Acker’s manuscripts and drawings which will be on display at Fales.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/551 (535 words)

	Kathy Acker - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In April 1996 Kathy Acker was diagnosed with breast cancer, and began to undergo treatment.
		In January 1997 she wrote about her loss of faith in...
		Download, listen and watch Kathy Acker music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/kathy-acker/384313/main (96 words)

	Acker Kathy - playwright
		To search for published plays by Kathy Acker click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Kathy Acker.
		Doollee aims to list every play written or produced in English since 1956.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsA/AckerKathy.htm (126 words)

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