Intense sexual desire is the greatest thing in the world.
KATHY ACKER

Born 1947, Manhattan, New York, USA

Died 1997, Tijuana, Mexico

First published in 1981.

KATHY ACKER IN PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS

Blood and Guts in High School

Great Expectations (forthcoming)

Kathy Acker

NEW YORK CITY IN 1979

Photographs by Anne Turyn

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This edition first published 2018

Photos © 1981 Anne Turyn, originally published in Top Stories #9: N.Y.C. in 1979 by Kathy Acker. (Top Stories was a chapbook series featuring one author per volume. www.topstoriesperiodical.com) Text © 1981 Kathy Acker, from Hannibal Lecter, My Father, Semiotext(e), 2007. Reproduced with kind permission of Semiotext(e)

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ISBN: 978-0-241-33890-2

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to Jeanne’s insulted beauty

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SOME people say New York City is evil and they wouldn’t live there for all the money in the world.

These are the same people who elected Johnson, Nixon, Carter President and Koch Mayor of New York.

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