Eat Your Mind

Discover the life and work of one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature in Eat Your Mind. This authorized biography of experimental novelist Kathy Acker is a feat of literary biography, drawing on exclusive interviews with hundreds of Acker’s intimates, journals, correspondence, and early drafts of her work. Acker wrote obsessively about the treachery of love, the limitations of language, and the possibility of revolution, collaging together texts stolen from other writers with her own diaries, sexual fantasies, and blunt political critiques. A must-read for those interested in important conversations about gender, sex, capitalism, and colonialism.