High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, Volume 1

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Ira Silverberg, Amy Scholder
Serpent's Tail, 1991 - Fiction - 290 pages
Responding to the challenge of freedom of expression in the arts, this collection of short stories by contemporary American writers explores the boundaries between the licit and the illicit. Contributors include Gary Indiana, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, John Preston, Wanda Coleman and others.

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Contents

MARY GAITSKILL
17
GARY INDIANA
37
PAT CALIFIA
55
Copyright

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Amy Scholder,Ira Silverberg
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About the author (1991)

Ira Silverberg is a literary agent and book publicist. He is a contributing editor to The Portable Lower East Side, a member of the board of directors of BOMB magazine, and co-chairman of the PEN Lesbian and Gay Committee. Amy Scholder is an editor at City Lights Books. She has edited Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence, Memories that Smell like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz and Jerk by Nayland Blake and Dennis Cooper. She is a performance / literature curator of the Lab gallery in San Francisco.

Bibliographic information

TitleHigh Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, Volume 1
EditorsIra Silverberg, Amy Scholder
Editionillustrated
PublisherSerpent's Tail, 1991
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedMar 28, 2011
ISBN1852422319, 9781852422318
Length290 pages
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