"The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker – Literary Hub". lithub.com. November 30, 2017. "In her own version of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, the narrator, as her Tarot cards—seen as "a psychic map of the present, therefore: the future"—are being read, refers to April 18 as her significator. The birth certificate, driver's license, and passport of the author give 1947 as birth year, relates Acker’s literary executor, Matias Viegener. Library of Congress information lists 1948, a date her publisher Grove Press takes for a biographical note for a posthumous gathering. In My Mother: Demonology, one of Acker’s last novels published while the author still lived, her narrative strategies have become to redo “childhood,” meaning within the work a set of returned-to memories, dreams, and also the pieces written when younger, the books loved rewritten. Here a narrator, if taken for a stand-in, changes her point of origin again, to something close but that does not exactly square, 'I was born on October 6, 1945.'"
Kathy Acker (January 18, 1997). "The gift of disease". The Guardian (original publisher, posted on Outward from Nothingness). Retrieved September 27, 2017.
