Jason Mcbride’s new biography of celebrity experimental writer, Kathy Acker is garnering high praise with rave reviews from the New York Times, Air Mail and the LA Times!
EAT YOUR MIND is the first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature.
Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and controversial artists of her era. The author of visionary, transgressive novels like Blood and Guts in High School; Empire of the Senses; and Pussy, King of Pirates, Acker wrote obsessively about the treachery of love, the limitations of language, and the possibility of revolution.
A feat of literary biography, drawing on exclusive interviews with hundreds of Acker’s intimates as well as her private journals, correspondence, and early drafts of her work, acclaimed journalist and critic Jason McBride offers a thrilling account and a long overdue reassessment of a misunderstood genius and revolutionary artist.
To read the New York Times review, please visit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/books/jason-mcbride-kathy-acker-eat-your-mind.html
To read the Air Mail review, please visit:
https://airmail.news/issues/2022-11-19/why-cant-you-write-normal
To read the LA Times review, please visit:
Jason McBride’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Believer, The Village Voice, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Hazlitt, and many others. He lives in Toronto. Eat Your Mind is his first book.
Jason is represented by Samantha Haywood.