Kathy Acker's Art of Identity Theft | The New Yorker
By stealing the work of others, the author remade herself—and reinvented what autobiographical writing could be.
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By stealing the work of others, the author remade herself—and reinvented what autobiographical writing could be.
One of the most satisfying things about Jason McBride’s new biography of notorious avant-garde American literary provocateur Kathy Acker is that it exists at all. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker had a long gestation period – almost 10 years, according to Toronto-based McBride. It was originally signed to Columbia
“Eat Your Mind,” a new biography by Jason McBride, surveys her life and art.
In 'Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,' Jason McBride follows a writer who was easy to romanticize, hard to read, impossible to know.
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