 Reviewing the book for "The Guardian", Olivia Laing noted, "Acker was the previous girlfriend of Kraus's now ex-husband, Sylvère Lotringer, like Kraus an editor at the independent publisher Semiotext(e) and a frequent interlocutor here.Is it crass to point this out?It certainly complicates any objective perspective, and maybe it would have been better to state it plainly, especially since it's logged in "I Love Dick", the roman-à-clef that made Kraus famous.