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Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-In-Pieces

Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-In-Pieces

Butler, Alice

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Art Criticism & TheoryWriting InstructionGeneral Gender Studies

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ISBN10: 1478029781
ISBN13: 9781478029786
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While the transgressive avant-garde writer Kathy Acker has developed a cult following in the decades since her death in the late-90s, the actress and writer Cookie Mueller has remained relatively obscure. In this creative-critical study, Butler participates and responds to the lives and writings of her shared beloved, reimagining the scene of the archive as a scene of triangulated and bittersweet love that traverses the boundaries of life and death. She draws on the autofictional strategies that Acker and Mueller pioneered in their own experimental writings and performances, encountering the women in intimate theoretical spaces of sensuality, sexuality, and sickness that slip between life and text. By encountering Acker and Mueller as transgressors and innovators, but also as beloved figures in her writing life whom she addresses in love letters, Butler brings readers to new, reparative textures of understanding, embodiment, and affection through close writing.

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