'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art; sex; blood; junkies and whores in New York's underground; from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series; with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary; international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin; Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan; New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.