"A countercultural hero who hybridized elements of punk, literary postmodernism, feminism, and critical theory in her public identity and in her literary works." -New Republic

"For Kathy, the breakthrough was her first serial novel, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula ... she lifts lines from old biographies of murderesses. She adopts their picaresque style and switches out I for she. And suddenly, she's off, and she can say anything." -Chris Kraus, Paris Review