Luckily, Acker’s fiction gives us plenty of clues. Populated by orphans, prostitutes, sailors, and pirates, her novels are about people in miserable circumstances who have no choice but to change.

In 'Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,' Jason McBride follows a writer who was easy to romanticize, hard to read, impossible to know.

Acker returned to New York at the start of the ’70s, a decade that reverberates in myth and memory for its cheap rents and artistic headiness. What’s most striking in McBride’s account ...

Both Acker and Wark quickly slip into roles that seem comfortable to them—Acker, the foul-mouthed, big-brained, high-maintenance diva; Wark, an eager, earnest pupil dazzled by Acker’s charisma ...

In April, 1996, just before her forty-ninth birthday, the writer Kathy Acker had a routine biopsy of a small lump she’d discovered in her left breast. It was the same unpleasant procedure she ...

Keira Knightly "bawled" seeing Lizzie Acker's cake on The Great British Baking Show . Now the reality star is balancing baking with fame and a brand new collaboration with Nielsen-Massey Vanilla ...

Acker Bilk, who topped the charts with Stranger on the Shore, has died aged 85. Here are five of the best songs from the jazz clarinet player ...

Acker Bilk, who has died aged 85, was a jazz clarinettist and bandleader who became a hugely popular figure in the wider world of entertainment; his recordings, in particular Stranger On The Shore ...

Acker Bilk also had what today would be regarded as a strong brand image. It included his unusual name, his Somerset accent, his goatee beard and moustache ...