"'Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other' New York Times 'Acker may be the true mother of Brat Pack writers like Bret Easton Ellis, but there isn't disgust in her work... Transgression is never disgust - it is a way of surviving' Jeanette Winterson 'There's a haunting method to Acker's "madness": a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion' Kirkus Reviews 'From the fringes, an outsider, Kathy Acker penetrated the heart of American culture with a superb and wicked intellectual force we had seen before' Sapphire"

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her work - over a dozen novels and novellas - has inspired a generation of writers and artists. She died in 1997.