James L. Harmon's "Take My Advice" (2002)

New York City: Simon & Schuster (book, anthology, 1st), 2002.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75", 254 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-4165-7835-2.

Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two, edited by James L. Harmon and published by Simon & Schuster (New York City) in 2002.

This includes a transcription of William S. Burroughs "Word of Advice for Young People" as spoken on Burroughs' album Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, pp. 154-157. Burroughs is noted as an "Aesthetic Terrorist."

Contents: 

• James L. Harmon: 
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Bob Shacochia: "Surviving Bad Advice"
• Dr. John Money: "Virtuoso Hand Practice"
• Cindy Sherman: untitled
• Richard Meltzer: "Very Deep Shit!"
• Mary McCarthy: untitled
• Robert Creeley: untitled
• Valerie Martin: untitled
• Howard Zinn: "Advice to the young / As for my own advice"
• Paul Krassner: untitled
• Lydia Lunch: "Consumer Revolt"
• Alphonso Lingia: "To Have Been Dangerous"
• Spalding Gray: untitled
• Joe Dallesandro: "If You Have to Be Beautiful"
• Camille Paglia: "Words To Live By"
• Bettie Page: untitled
• Judith Butler: "Doubting Love"
• Roger Scruton: "Advice to Those Who Come After Us"
• Ken Kesey: untitled
• Gene Wolfe: untitled
• Mary Gaitskill: untitled
• Richard Powers: untitled
• Michael Thomas Ford: "Scraps"
• Mark Dery: "The Sunshine Syndrome: Portrait of the Artist as a Jaundiced Don Diego"
• Alexander Theroux: untitled
• Carolyn Chute: untitled
• Florence King; untitled
• Maurice Vellekoop: illustration
• George Saunders: "A Piece of Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment"
• Quentin Crisp: untitled
• Mark Simpson: "Get Shallow"
• Bret Lott: untitled
• Lynda Barry: untitled
• R. U. Sirius: "Don't Worry About Selling Out. Just Don't Buy In."
• Charles Baxter: untitled
• Anita O'Day: untitled
• Tom Robbins: untitled
• Ian Shoales; untitled
• C. D. Payne: untitled
• Bruce Benderson: untitled
• W. V. Quine: untitled
• Mark Helprin: untitled
• Scott Russell Sanders: untitled
• Eileen Myles: "Survival of a Starfish" 
• John Shirley: untitled
• Abbie Hoffman: untitled
• Dr. Laura Schlesinger: untitled
• Bruce LaBruce: "The Love God?; or, How to Succeed in Pornography without Really Trying – A Cautionary Tale"
• Richard Taylor: untitled
• Arthur Nersesian: "The Worst Vice"
• Ram Dass: untitled
• Jim Harrison: untitled
• Horst: untitled
• William S. Burroughs: "Words of Advice for Young People"
• Wayne Koestenbaum: "Advice to the Young"
• Martha Gellhorn: untitled
• Lucius Shepard: untitled
• Alain de Botton: untitled
• Dan Jenkins: untitled
• Martha Nussbaum: untitled
• Bette Davis: "Yes, Burn Your Bridges!"
• Rita Dove: "Advice to the Young Writer"
• Steve Stern: untitled
• Fay Weldon: untitled
• Murray Bookchin: untitled
• John Zerzan: "Whose Future?"
• Jennifer Belle: "Take Your Own Advice"
• Vera Countess von Lehndorff (a.k.a. Veruschka): "Life Is an Adventurous Journey"
• Joel-Peter Witkin: untitled
• Hakim Bey: "Travel Advisory"
• Diane Wakoski: untitled
• Jonathan Ames: "Jonathan Ames's Advice for People in Their Twenties"
•  Joanna Scott: "Stuffed Peppers (A Recipe for Beauty)"
• Stewart Home: "On the Misery of Literary Life"
• John Rechy: untitled
• Larry Niven: "Niven's Laws"
• William T. Vollmann: untitled
• Chris Kraus: "Doomed Love"
• Katharine Hepburn: untitled
• Contributor's Notes