
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 23, 1993                   TAG: 9304230244
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Beth Macy
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

LEATHER & LACE

When you think about it, the possibilities are endless - all of it in a single weekend, all of it within the confines of Hollins College.

It's a pop-culturist's dream come true.

First there's the annual spring cotillion this weekend - where young Hollie Collies and their dapper dates pair off in formal bliss.

Then there's the Society for Creative Anachronism's Medieval Faire, to add some jousting and juggling to the recipe.

But the real spice comes when postmodern/experimental/tattoo- and leather-sporting novelist Kathy Acker will read from her fiction - and do who-knows-what-else at 1 p.m. Saturday in Babcock Auditorium.

Madonna, Sid Vicious, Guns N' Roses - these folks are namby-pamby lightweights compared to Acker, whose novels include "Empire of the Senseless" and "In Memoriam to Identity."

As one Hollins faculty member promises: "She will say things in Babcock that have never been said in Babcock before."

We just hope no one wanders into the fray unknowing.

Leather, armor and taffeta-lace? It sounds like a Kathy Acker novel come to life.

by CNB