Kathy Acker: Mitali Restaurant, NYC / interview with Barry Alpert (Only Paper Today, March 30, 1976) -- Informal interview / by R. J. Ellis, Carolyn Bird, Dawn Curwen, Ian Mancor, Val Ogden, and Charles Patrick (April 23, 1986) -- Kathy Acker: Gramercy Park Hotel bar, NYC / conversation with Dean Kuipers (July 2, 1988) -- Kathy Acker/Sylvère Lotringer (devoured by myths): unexpurgated transcript, 1989-1990 -- The On our backs interview: Kathy Acker / by Lisa Palac (May/June 1991) -- Kathy Acker / by Andrea Juno and V. Vale (Angry Women, RE/Search, 1991; June Books, 1999) -- Body bildung / Laurence A. Rickels talks with Kathy Acker (Artforum, February 1994) -- Kathy Acker in conversation / with Beth Jackson (eyeline, Autumn/Winter 1996) -- All girls together / Kathy interviews The Spice Girls (The Guardian, 1997) -- The last interview / by Kasia Boddy.
Summary:
"Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon, and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncompromising, and often misunderstood 30-year career. From Acker's earliest interviews--filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses--to the last interview before her death where she reflects on the state of American literature, these interviews capture the writer at her funny and surprising best. Another highlight includes Acker's 1997 interview with the Spice Girls on the forces of pop and feminism (which reads as if it could have been conducted with a new generation of pop star in 2018)"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.