Red Bass, Issue 15 ("Conspiracy Charges"), 1991

Burroughs contributes the cover art for this issue: “People of the Lie/The Lie Decade”.

Published in New York City by Red Bass Productions in 1991.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), acquired through his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.389
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19910000RBAS.0.15, b17

Selected Contents:

• William S. Burroughs: "People of the Lie/The Lie Decade" (painting/cover art)
• Philip Berrigan: "Preface on the Gulf War" (essay)
• Stuart Hutchison: "All of a Peace in Memory: Emile de Antonio" (essay)
• Emile de Antonio: "Mr. Hoover and I" (essay)
• James Purdy:
• "My Greatest Pain" (poetry)
• "The Thick Residuum of Night" (poetry)
• Luisa Valenzuela: "Restructuralizations" (prose, translated by Cynthia Ventura)
• H. D. Moe:
• "Quit that Monkey Business Upstairs (Elegy for Gary Johnston)" (poetry)
• "Ideas" (poetry)
• Martin A. Lee and Norman Soloman: "Fourth Estate or Fourth Branch of Government?" (essay)
• Michael Corris: "The Order of the Showroom" (exhibition views)
• Sheila Murphy: "The Money I Am Worth Is Singing" (poetry)
• Lynne Tillman: "Committed" (script)
• Irving Wexler: "Never Again" (poetry)
• E. San Juan Jr.: "The Philippines: U.S. Imperial Hegemony and the Forging of a Culture of Resistance" (essay)
• Clayton Patterson: "Censorship and the American Dream" (essay)
• Pradip Choudhuri: "Gol Park" (poetry)
• Lydia Lunch: "Capital Punishment for Petty Crimes" (poetry)
• B. Z. Niditch:
• "Death Squads" (poetry)
• "Political Prisoners" (poetry)
• Warren Hinckle: "Bush and Drug Wars: Three Case Studies in Deceit" (essay)
• Stuart Hutchison, John Stockwell, David Scheim, Ellen Ray, and William Schaap: "Interview"
• Jay Murphy and Judge Jim Garrison: "Interview"
• Jay Murphy and Philip Agee: "Interview"
• Thomas Whitworth:
• "Confess" (photocollage)
• "Learn" (photocollage)
• "Complex" (photocollage)
• Jacques Roumain: "The Prey and the Shadow" (prose, translated by Ronald F. Sauer)
• Sesshu Foster: "Worker Writers" (combined review)
• Joe Napora: review of The Bottom Line by Jack Hirschman
• Caroline Senter: review of Stepping Out of the Plane Under the Protection of the Army by Sal Salasin
• Eugenie Nable: review of Angry Days by Sesshu Foster
• David Rivé: review of The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille
• Paul Green: "Pinning down the Language: The Inventions of P. Inman" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor-in-Chief: Jay Murphy
• Associate Editors: Julia Hodges, David Rivé
• Art Direction: Mary Vidrine
• Staff: Paul McCord, Lucia Nutting, Gina Ferrara, Brittany Whalen