RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksKraus gives us an authoritative, narratively engaging, and highly readable story of a remarkable life. One that we might even recognize … Though Acker rehearsed her life story in her fiction and public persona, she remains a highly unreliable narrator. As Kraus notes, scholars regularly cite the myths Acker perpetuated in her life as if they were facts. In tackling those myths, After Kathy Acker will be required reading for Acker scholars and enthusiasts alike. The biographical clarity Kraus provides will also, I am sure, teach us new ways to read Acker’s novels, which are dense with intertextual references, excerpts from her diaries, and shocking scenes of sex and violence … After Kathy Acker allows readers to feel like they could have been Kathy, without feeling like they possess her...We are after Kathy Acker, in both senses of that word.
