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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 I'm Very into You : Correspondence 1995–1996
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“Why am I telling you all this? Partly ‘cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child’s play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-peddler whatever. I forget who I am. You reminded me of who I prefer to be.” [M.W.]

'“It’s two in the morning. . . I know what you mean about slipping roles: I love it, going high low, power helpless even captive, male female, all over the place, space totally together and brain-sharp, if it wasn’t for play I’d be bored stiff and I think boredom is the emotion I find most unbearable. . . ” [KA]

—from I’m Very into You

'After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of analysis. What results is an index of how two brilliant and idiosyncratic writers might go about a courtship across 7,500 miles of airspace—by pulling in Alfred Hitchcock, stuffed animals, Georges Bataille, Elvis Presley, phenomenology, Marxism, The X-files, psychoanalysis, and the I Ching.

'Their corresepondence is a Plato’s Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks. I’m Very Into You is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.'

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      United States of America (USA),
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      MIT Press ,
      2015 .
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      ISBN: 9781584351641

Works about this Work

Love in the Time of Email Ashley Crawford , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 March 2015; (p. 36)

— Review of I'm Very into You : Correspondence 1995–1996 Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , 2015 single work correspondence
Love in the Time of Email Ashley Crawford , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 March 2015; (p. 36)

— Review of I'm Very into You : Correspondence 1995–1996 Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , 2015 single work correspondence
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