'The world is infested with evil!' When Kathy Acker met the Spice Girls

A new BBC podcast asks: ‘Which mad genius sent Acker to interview the biggest girl group in the world?’ None other than the Guardian in May 1997. Unpopped host Hayley Campbell introduces Acker’s pop opusIn 1997, the feminist punk poet and experimental writer Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls for the Guardian (not, as has passed into legend, US Vogue). The Spice Girls were at the height of their fame, flicking peace signs at us from every teenage girl’s bedroom wa...

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