Besides temporary stints appearing in the Eighties and 1990s, she has been unable to find employment past sex work so lives off donations. Since the age of thirteen, Cortaza fought to change her name from Alberto to Liz, even calling a psychologist to testify at the Supreme Court that she was not crazy for claiming […]

Ask for his or her opinions, their concepts, what they want and why it’s necessary. Support that when you probably can, and if you can’t, have your good causes ready to share with them. We can tell ourselves that we’ve control, but when they wish to do one thing badly sufficient, they’ll find a method

Wesleyan University Press revived his “Nevèrÿon” collection, which drew praise from Fredric Jameson and Umberto Eco, in the early nineties. It also published a sequence of essay collections that established him as a number one theorist of paraliterary genres, from science fiction to comedian books to pornography. Gayatri Spivak, the deconstructionist scholar, was so impressed