Description: Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century.
Review Quotes: "Acker may be the true mother of Brat Pack writers like Brett Easton Ellis, but there isn't disgust in her work ... Transgression is never disgust--it is a way of surviving."--Jeanette Winterson
"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 "Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know."--New York Times Book Review