Plastic Words - Chris Kraus, The Childlike Life Of The Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th-Century Fable – Chris Kraus Wednesday 14 January 2015, 6.30pm Chris Kraus on her in-progress critical biography of Kathy Acker (1947–97) and her approach to biography as a literary form that exists in the friction between writer and subject. --- Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. She is the author of four novels, most recently Summer of Hate (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, 2012). --- Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.