Monday, April 17, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch's six favorite books

Lidia Yuknavitch's new novel is The Book of Joan.

One of the author's six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:
Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker

Acker's 1988 dystopian novel left me shredded. Narrators Abhor, who's "part robot, part black," and Thivai, a diagnosed paranoid, describe a world in which Algerian immigrants have taken over Paris, violence is omnipresent, Western cities are filled with zombies, and the CIA has mutated into a multinational behemoth. Acker depicts a kind of pornographic war zone, the logical extension of late capitalism and consumerism.
Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue