Blood and Guts in High School

Acker's work, more than that of any other writer I can think of, challenged the traditional lines of demarcation between poetry and novel, between high culture and popular trash and, perhaps most important of all, between literature and art world.

London Review of Books, Peter Wollen

A coming-of-age story which examines incest and paedophilia with a profoundly Sadist literary bent ... can be credited with moving mainstream literature into indie territory.

A Stevens, Guardian

Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill

William S. Burroughs

[Kathy Acker is] part rebel bohemian avant-gardiste, part NYC downtown punk, and part venerable literary grande dame

Michael Bracewell

Twenty years after her death and I still miss her

Neil Gaiman

Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul

William S. Burroughs

Acker understands that writing without myth is nothing

Chris Kraus

Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer

Jeanette Winterson

Scarified sensibility,subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other

The New York Times Review of Books

An avatar of nomadic urban modern primitive tribes... her novels perform postmodern campfire grill voodoo... She was a magician

R.U. Sirius

Reading Kathy Acker is like playing hopscotch with a genius

Richard Foreman