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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.

Today, my guest is Chris Krause.

She's the author, most recently, of After Kathy Acker.

People who've been watching television, perhaps know the book that was the basis of the series, I Love Dick.

She's the author as well of aliens and anorexia, a novel I particularly love called Torpor

and another called Summer of Hate.

And now she's written a biography after Kathy Acker.

It's published by Simeo Text and it's about the avant-garde writer Kathy Acker.

I read many biographies of writers, and there are some in particular that attempt to get inside the writers' process. And now Chris Krause has written what I think

is the best book that I've ever read about the writing process. Who was Kathy Acker?

Kathy Acker was an American writer.

She was born in 1947.

She died at the age of 50 and 97.

She was active between the years,

oh, I would say,

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