A book is a drug too big to swallow.
—Steve Clay (in homage to Terence McKenna)
Steve Clay is the publisher of Granary Books, a curator, collector, and archivist as well as the editor of several volumes including Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins (with Ken Friedman), A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book & Writing (with Jerome Rothenberg), and A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960–1980 (with Rodney Phillips).