A Year in Reading: Danzy Senna
Reading books rather than trawling social media makes me feel connected—the act of entering a perspective and narrative other than my own. This year especially reading felt like an act of resistance. I read works that reminded me to prize complexity and depth over their opposites.
One of my favorite reads this by . It’s about Acker’s life and work but is also, and perhaps more so, a social history of the counterculture, punk, poetry world of the 1980s. It’s furthermore a meditation on the particular struggles of a female rebel in the literary world. I’m not that wild about Kathy Acker’s writing, but I am a huge fan of Chris Kraus—and her lucid, intelligent mind was for me the real pleasure of this book.
