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American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)
Also known as: Black Tarantula, Clay Fear, Karen Lehmann, The Black Tarantula, Кэти Акер, كاثي آكر
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William S. Burroughs1914–1997ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCut-up technique, transgressive sexuality and fragmented anti-narrative prose that directly shaped Acker's plagiaristic collage method. (AI reason)
Dennis Cooper1953–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetTransgressive queer fiction exploring violence, desire and the body in stark, experimental form. (AI reason)
Chris Kraus1955–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBlends autofiction, theory and confessional feminist writing in an art-world context. (AI reason)
Eileen Myles1949–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPunk-inflected, autobiographical queer writing from the downtown New York poetry scene. (AI reason)
- Gary Indiana1950–2024ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Caustic downtown New York fiction about sex, art and power in a transgressive register. (AI reason)
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Jean Genet1910–1986ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLyrical transgressive prose celebrating outlaws, criminality and sexual marginality. (AI reason)
Georges Bataille1897–1962ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetErotic transgression, violence and excess explored through philosophical fiction. (AI reason)
Lynne Tillman1947–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetExperimental, intellectually playful fiction from the same downtown avant-garde milieu. (AI reason)
Monique Wittig1935–2003ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRadical feminist experimental fiction that rewrites the female body and language. (AI reason)
- Constance DeJong1950–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Fragmented, performance-rooted experimental narrative prose of the 1970s New York avant-garde. (AI reason)
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- The Last Sex
- Great expectations (1982)
- The artist in society
- Pussy, king of the pirates (1996)
- The Seven cardinal virtues