When James Grauerholz and I co-edited the restored text edition of Naked Lunch, I must have read Naked Lunch about 20 times, and at least another six times in writing this book.
It mentions favourably Stevie - A Motley Selection, which I co-edited for the Greville Press in 2002.
(There was also a guy named Madoff in our class but he doesn't show up in the yearbook my wife and I co-edited. Nobody heard of the schnook back then).
We were connected, perhaps bonded, in a way probably not generally known: sometime in 1990, I think, I received a quite hefty story manuscript submitted to Ontario Review, which I co-edited with my late husband, Raymond Smith.
Having discovered a suitcase full of Emma's writing, from her time in care as a child, through to her life after prison, Harriet and I co-edited a book called The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys.
I co-edited the anthology with Ari Elon and Naomi Mara Hyman.
Along with Miriam Jaffe Foger, I co-edited an issue of Philip Roth Studies entitled, "Mourning Zuckerman".
It's fun! Which brings me to the anthology that Eric Choi and I co-edited, Carbide Tipped Pens.
My first book was White Man Falling: Race, Gender and White Supremacy and most recently I co-edited Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics.
It was the spirit of those spiritual and intellectual currents going on that led to the book being developed that I co-edited with Charles Jones.
In 1977, after a huge flood aggravated by strip-mining and clear-cutting, I co-edited a small anthology called Mucked that collected regional writers concerned with environmental issues.
