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 oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists.

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/17/2006
ISBN: 9781844670666
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.08w x 0.43d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 315