“Magazine launches & events 1975-89”. magforum.com.
Kathy Acker
Standard Name: Acker, Kathy
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Anthologization | Michèle Roberts | This book was Fell's brainchild. Other contributors included Kathy Acker
on Lust (whom MR
admires for the riproaring language in which she writes of sexual violence), Zoë Fairbairns
on Covetousness, Fell herself of Sloth, and... |
Friends, Associates | Jeanette Winterson | JW
is a close friend of crime writer Ruth Rendell
, from whom she borrows a cottage in Essex every autumn to go and spend time writing. Other friends speak of JW
as a person... |
Publishing | Zoë Fairbairns | Photographs of contributors (including Kathy Acker
, Leslie Dick
, Sara Maitland
, Agnes Owens
, and Michèle Roberts
) adorn the back cover. Amanda Faulkner
provided the illustrations. |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | In 1989 she edited an issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction together with Kathy Acker
and Marguerite Young
. She collaborated on Interpretation and Overinterpretation, 1992, with Umberto Eco
, Richard Rorty
, and... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | The editors referred coyly to Time Out as Another London Magazine. “Magazine launches & events 1975-89”. magforum.com. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 265 |
Timeline
1996
US punk writer Kathy Acker
published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.