Please Be Nice to Me: Navigating History, Mystery, and Desire in Chris Kraus’s “After Kathy Acker”
In the first authorized biography of Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus digs beneath the myths around the avant-garde heroine.
Anna Ioanes is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Her scholarship focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American literature and visual culture and has appeared or is forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the minnesota review. She is co-editor, with Douglas Dowland, of Violent Feelings, a special issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and co-editor, with Andrew Marzoni, of TECHStyle, an online forum for research in digital humanities and pedagogy.
In the first authorized biography of Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus digs beneath the myths around the avant-garde heroine.