Chris Kraus

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon … scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker’s legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker’s books was unprecedented: her books were banned in several countries and condemned by the mainstream media, but eventually […]

Kathy Acker: Rich girl, street punk, scholar, stripper, victim, media-whore … and cultural icon. The late Kathy Acker’s legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, many of them created by her. Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50, Acker’s legend has faded, but her writing has become clearer. A few years ago, the […]

When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into […]

»När jag hittade I Love Dick var det som att hitta den saknade pusselbiten till allt jag någonsin läst och allt jag någonsin försökt skriva.« | EMILY GOULD, THE GUARDIAN  Chris Kraus är en misslyckad experimentell filmmakare som snart ska fylla fyrtio. Hon är gift med den franska hippa kritikern Sylvère Lotringer, som undervisar vid […]

Kritikerrosad roman av författaren till I Love Dick.  »Summer of Hate är originell, intelligent, ärlig, full av svart humor, och griper tag i läsaren som en obeveklig thriller.« LA Review of Books 2005 vaknar Catt Dunlop upp ur en gastkramande och berusande BDSM-lek som fört henne nära döden, och kör hela vägen till Albuquerque. Hon […]

It’s Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan. Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and […]