In our December reading group session from last year, we explored Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless. Below are bibliographies from the discussions:

• Parable of the Sower, Novel by Octavia E. Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993)
• The Ticket That Exploded, Novel by William S. Burroughs (Olympia Press, 1962)
• Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail, Book by Marcus Rediker (Beacon Press, 2014)
• Heart of Darkness, Novella by Joseph Conrad (Blackwood’s Magazine, 1899 serial; 1902 book)
• Cities of the Red Night, Novel by William S. Burroughs (The Red Night trilogy, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US) John Calder (UK), 1981)
• The Fortunate Fall, Novel by Raphael Carter (Tor Books, 1996)
• Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS, Book by Deborah B. Gould (The University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• Neuromancer, Novel by William Gibson (originally published in 1984)
• Burst City, Released in 1982, Directed by Sogo Ishii.
• The Widow Ching—Pirate, short story by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics, 2011)
• Haitian Vodou
• A Conversation with Kathy Acker By Ellen G. Friedman
• Interview with Steven Shaviro