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BOOKLAUNCH The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker
8 September 2023 07:00PM

C'EST LA RENTRÉE ! Join us for this first one to fire up the season.
We will welcome a hologram reading by author Jack Skelley + an IRL conversation with Sabrina Tarasoff and (drums) Dennis Cooper.

ZOOM LINK : https://zoom.us/j/98838645336

Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley's “secretly legendary” novel is at once an homage to the thrillingly inventive spirit of Kathy Acker's cut-up novels and a definitive history of LA's underground culture of the mid-1980s.

Composed in bursts, Fear of Kathy Acker depicts Los Angeles through the eyes of a self-mocking narrator. Shifting styles and personae as he moves between Venice and Torrance, punk clubs and shopping malls, Disneyland and Dodger Stadium, Jack Skelley pushes the limits of language and identity while pursuing—much as Kathy Acker did—a quixotic literary mix of discipline and anarchy. In this adrenalized, cosmic, and comic chronicle of Los Angeles, Skelley's “real life” friends make cameo appearances alongside pop archetypes from Madonna to Billy Idol.

This first-ever complete edition of the book includes new essays, playlists, and a map of the 1980s Los Angeles in which its manic protagonist lives and loves.
published by Semiotext(e)

BUY THE BOOK HERE !

 - BOOKLAUNCH The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker