"It feels more contemporary, more necessary, and more dangerous than it did even when Kathy published it."-Neil Gaiman, from the new introduction

Kathy Acker (1948-1997) was an influential postmodernist writer and performance artist, whose many books include Blood and Guts in High School; Don Quixote; Literal Madness; Empire of the Senseless; In Memoriam to Identity; My Mother: Demonology; Portrait of an Eye; and Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective.