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High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings

by Amy Scholder (Editor), Ira Silverberg (Editor)

Other authors: William S. Burroughs (Contributor)

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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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This provocative collection of short fiction, essays, and poetry freely delves into forbidden zones of sex and transgressive behavior. The writers and artists featured in High Risk share one strong conviction: that art must be bound only by the limits of the imagination. Here is the so called dark side of life beckoning in all its manifestations - sadomasochism, prostitution, incest, drug use, bondage, transsexuality. Filled with tenderness and brutality, with wit and sensuality, these are works by writers on the cutting edge of contemporary American literature. This is writing that dares to give voice to the shadow regions of the heart, to the most subversive desires of the body, and to a politics that unabashedly defies convention.
  Cultural_Attache | Jul 22, 2018 |
Some stories are fine, but most of them are just ok. ( )
  astroantiquity | Jun 25, 2007 |
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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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