Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton Town, England, and, finally, to a ship headed toward Pirate Island, where the stories converge and the vision ends.

Neil Gaiman, a close friend of Acker's, has written a new introduction to this anniversary edition. In typical Acker fashion, he's including a text exchange with one of Acker's fictional heroines, Janey Smith, along with stories of their friendship and what Acker would think of everything now, today, "as the world begins to burn."

"It feels more contemporary, more necessary, and more dangerous than it did even when Kathy published it."-Neil Gaiman, from the new introduction

"[Kathy Acker's] twitchy genius lies in the realm of the realm of half-remembered dreams. Pussy reads and sounds like the work of people who know exactly know what they're doing, even if part of their mission is to keep you from making easy categorizations. You can't easily categorize dreams, either, but when they're this provocative, you hope you have them again."-Hotwired