"High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings" (1991)

New York City: Dutton/Penguin (book, anthology), 1991.
8.75" x 5.875" x 1", 299 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-525-24966-4.

High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, edited by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg, as published in softcover and a rather scarce hardcover [as shown] by Dutton/Penguin Books (New York City) in 1991. Jacket design by Rex Ray with a photo of the editors by Kate Simon. Book designed by Leonard Telesca.

This includes William S. Burroughs' "Just Say No to Drug Hysteria", pp. 69-79. This was published previously in Spin magazine, in the February 1990 issue.

Shoaf II.272.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg: introduction
• Carl Apfelschnitt: "High Risk" (drawing, 1989)
• John Preston: "How Dare You Even Think These Things?"
• Mary Gaitskill: "Action, Illinois"
• Gary Indiana: "Dreams Involving Water"
• Pat Califia: "Poems":
• "Canada"
• "Gone"
• "Heroin"
• "We Really Should Stop This, You Know"
• William S. Burroughs: "Just Say No to Drug Hysteria"
• Bob Flanagan: "Body"
• David Trinidad: "Eighteen to Twenty-One"
• Ana Maria Simo: "How to Kill Her"
• Hattie Gossett: "Bras & Rubbers in the Gutters":
• "fiercely free 40s"
• "boys game–she asked for it"
• "aint nobodys bidness if i do?"
• "welfare clients"
• "the homeless/does economics take precedence over sexuality?"
• Dennis Cooper: "Wrong"
• Kathy Acker: "A Young Girl"
• Essex Hemphill: "Heavy Breathing"
• Dorothy Allison: "Private Rituals"
• Wanda Coleman: "Poems":
• "why i don't write love poems for you"
• "black madonna"
• "what i know of my man"
• "death 213"
• Manuel Ramos Otero: "The Exemplary Life of the Slave and the Master"
• Lynne Tillman: "Diary of the Masochist"
• Terence Sellers: "Is There Life After Sadomasochism?"
• Jane Delynn: "Butch"
• Dodie Bellamy: "Dear Dennis"
• Robert Glück: "Workload"
• Kate Bornstein: "Transsexual Lesbian Playwright Tells All!"
• Michael Lassell: "Dreams in Bondage"
• Cookie Mueller: "The One Percent"
• David Wojnarowicz: "Being Queer in America: A Journal of Disintegration"
• Karen Finley: "It's Only Art"
• Nan Goldin: "Cookie Mueller with her husband, Vittorio" (photograph)
• About the Authors
• About the Editors