High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion

by Amy Scholder (editor), Ira Silverberg (editor), Stewart Home (contributor)

An uncompromisingly truthful, unfailingly adventurous companion to the hugely successful High Risk, this daring and provocative collection of short fiction includes pieces on AIDS, urban violence, sex for money, drugs, and revenge, and suicide, among other topics, offering perverse yet profound ways of looking at the world today.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Gay

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Amy Scholder was the editorial director of the Feminist Press for six years. She has also served as editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press, US publisher of Verso, founding co-editor of HIGH RISK Books/Serpent’s Tail, and editor at City Lights Books. Over the years, she has published the work of Sapphire, Karen Finley, June Jordan, Kate Bornstein, Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Joni Mitchell, Jill Johnson, Kate Millett, Elfriede Jelinek, Muriel Rukeyser, Laurie Weeks, Justin Vivian Bond, Virginie Despentes, Ana Castillo, and many other award-winning authors. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion is the kind of smart that doesn't need to announce itself. Amy Scholder lets the ideas show up in small stories and quiet asides, and they stick longer that way. A couple of chapters drift. Great for readers who like subtle, skip if you want a loud thesis.

[Soph Nova · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was more of a mixed bag than the first High Risk Collection which I thought was fantastic. Maybe it's because it was more about death than sex, maybe I didn't connect as much with the writing, I'm not sure, but this collection might only be worth it if you really like shock lit.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

High Risk 2 is a reality check for anyone still hooked on the idea that public institutions exist to serve the public good, with Amy Scholder exposing the cold self-interest at play.