A feminist with a transgressive imagination, Kathy Acker (1947-97) brings humor and creativity to her novels, three of which are collected here. Florida is a variation on the Bogart-Bacall film Key Largo, while in Kathy Goes to Haiti, a young woman travels to the island nation for no reason, and embarks on a sex odyssey. My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini finds the late Italian filmmaker trying to solve his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Brontë sisters.