ABSTRACT
What fascinated me about Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations were the endless contradictions-why should one read a book that claims to be ‘un-knowledge’? I didn’t expect Acker to resolve these contradictions, but the interview I arranged with her did give me an opportunity to ask her to elaborate on them. What were her feelings on postmodernism and feminism? Why was she teaching when she had professed to loathe the academy? How would her writing be affected if her books became more widely read? The interview took place at Acker’s apartment in San Francisco, on 18 February 1991.
