Writers Who Love Too Much

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' After Kathy Acker (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 Writers Who Love Too Much (2017) assembles texts from over 40 contributors (including Acker and Kraus) that continually re-formed New Narrative over a twenty-year period.