Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-based Writing

Toni Davidson

Serpent's Tail, 1998 - Fiction - 213 pages

There is a special relationship between writers and drugs. From De Quincey to Huxley; Baudelaire to Burroughs, writers have fused stimulants with the creative urge; blurring experimentation with need, and desire with addiction. Recent times have seen a significant upsurge in stimulant based writing. Intoxication features some of the best of this new fiction from both British and American writers like Irvine Welsh, Lynne Tillman, Jeff Noon and Gary Indiana, fictions which explore themes closely related to the preoccupations of the 'chemical generation.? With all the hedonistic highs and paranoid poignancy of a drug itself, Intoxication is a stand out gathering of some of the most innovative and entertaining writers of the 1990s.

Contents

• Marina Blake Nosferatu the Valley Gyrl: 107
• Stewart Home Toilet Love: 122
• Irvine Welsh Victor Spoils: 150

About the author

Toni Davidson is a writer, editor and performer. He has previously edited an anthology of Scottish lesbian and gay writing And thus Will I Freely Sing (Polygon). His fiction has appeared in The Crazy Jig, The Mammoth Book of Gay Stories, Queer Words and Rebel Inc. His performance work has been staged at the CCA and Arches theatre in Glasgow.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Intoxication: An Anthology of Stimulant-based Writing
• Editor: Toni Davidson
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1998
• ISBN: 185242558X, 9781852425586
• Length: 213 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / General