Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective is one of Kathy Acker’s very first novels, “a pornographic mystery” set in New York City of the early 1970s. Unlikely ever to have succeeded as pulp fiction, Acker’s unsaleable thriller nonetheless kickstarts one of the best runs in American letters; shot through with fragments of other early masterpieces and anticipating the…
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