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Kathy Acker: Pussy, king of the pirates (1996, Grove Press) 4 stars

From Publishers Weekly Once again displaying her penchant-and talent-for scavenging extant texts, Acker (My Mother: …

Review of 'Pussy, king of the pirates' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

It's been many, many years since I read this.

So... imagine if Robert Anton Wilson was a completely obscene punk feminist who believed that really, the best way to make a novel work is to completely fuck with the reader's head. There were times when I was wondering if this book was a story or a polemic against sanity. It predates 4chan by several decades, but you can see where they got the inspiration from.