Kathy Acker

'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette WintersonThis is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It's a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker's breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon.Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, Blood and Guts in High School is published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William S. Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others.

After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of analysis. What results is an index of how two brilliant and idiosyncratic writers might go about a courtship across 7,500 miles of airspace-by pulling in Alfred Hitchcock, stuffed animals, Georges Bataille, Elvis Presley, phenomenology, Marxism, The X-files, psychoanalysis, and the I Ching. Their corresepondence is a Plato's Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks. I'm Very Into You is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.

Podivná, velmi podivná kniha. Změť: sny, roviny, časy, zrození a smrt, to vše se vzájemně prolíná, doplňuje a proplétá až do vyvrcholení se špínou, hřbitovy, piráty, krysami, punkery a dívkami. Příběh o hledání, dětství, sexualitě a světě. Velmi nekonformní kniha, jak už formou, tak i obsahem, jež je jakoby ženskou obdobou Burroughsova díla (masturbující holčičky a vůbec sex a láska mezi ženami).

Podivná, velmi podivná kniha. Změť: sny, roviny, časy, zrození a smrt, to vše se vzájemně prolíná, doplňuje a proplétá až do vyvrcholení se špínou, hřbitovy, piráty, krysami, punkery a dívkami. Příběh o hledání, dětství, sexualitě a světě. Velmi nekonformní kniha, jak už formou, tak i obsahem, jež je jakoby ženskou obdobou Burroughsova díla (masturbující holčičky a vůbec sex a láska mezi ženami).