The notorious 1978 Kathy Acker's novel Blood and Guts in High School, partly situated in the East Village, spins the all-American coming-of-age story into a girl riot. “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you’re seeing a paradigm Kathy helped bring into the realm of the recognizable,” writes Sarah Schulman in The Gentrification of the Mind. Schulman invites more than seventy artists—including many of Acker’s peers, friends, mentees, and cultural descendants—for a marathon reading of With Lynne Tillman, Carolee Schneemann, Charles Bernstein, Penny Arcade, Jennifer Blowdryer, Justin Vivian Bond, Richard Foreman, John Godfrey, Bette Gordon, Jessica Hagedorn, Carla Harryman, Tracie Morris, Matias Viegener, Tommy Pico, Betsy Sussler, Carl Hancock Rux, Bina Sharif, Kate Zambreno and many more.
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