Writers Who Love Too Much

<p>Exploring narrative through an unfailingly complex prism of the self and bending it through a conceptualist framework, New Narrative produced stories likely to overshare and talk too much while addressing the meta-texts and sub-texts of a body-and self-obsessed writing, intertwining theory with gossip and the messiness of being a body and a mind. Two books published in 2017 set out, each in their own way, to map the relational topography such writing derived from: Chris Kraus’ <em>After Kathy Acker</em> (2017) traces Acker’s path to and within writing, the pirating it partly built upon, while returning the question of writing and entanglement to the biographer. The anthology <em>Writers Who Love Too Much</em> (2017) assembles texts from over 40 contributors (including Acker and Kraus) that continually re-formed New Narrative over a twenty-year period.</p>