Kathy Acker The Last Interview And Other Conversations Amy Scholder by Amy Scholder, Douglas A. Martin, Kathy Acker 9781612197319, 1612197310, B07BD28HMB instant download after payment.

Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncompromising, and often misunderstood 30-year career.

“Acker may be the true mother of Brat Pack writers like Brett Easton Ellis, but there isn’t disgust in her work … Transgression is never disgust — it is a way of surviving.”  -  Jeanette Winterson

From Acker’s earliest interviews — filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses — to the last interview before her death, where she reflects on the state of American literature, these interviews capture the writer at her funny and surprising best. Another highlight includes Acker’s 1997 interview with the Spice Girls on the forces of pop and feminism (which reads as if it could have been conducted with a new generation of pop star in 2018).

"No writer I know is more audacious than Kathy Acker, whose anarchic wit drives a thoroughgoing attack on conventions and complacencies of all sorts. Not unlike Gertrude Stein in her day, Acker gives us a different way to look at the uses to which language is put.”  -  Lynne Tillman

The Last Interview Series: Melville House has been publishing a popular series of books called The Last Interview and Other Conversations which celebrates the heroes and innovators of art, politics and literature with a collection of interviews and conversations that span their creative lives.