Vanity Fair, Volume 46, Number 9, November 1983

Burroughs contributes “The Baron Says These Things”, a preview chapter from The Place of Dead Roads, pp. 104-109.

A photograph of Burroughs by Kenneth McGowan is at page 107.

Published in New York City by Condé Nast Publications in November, 1983.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.332
• Schottlaender v4.C536
• Raven 19831100VFAI.46.9, b3

Contents:

• various: reviews
• Duane Michals: photograph of Lewis Thomas
• Judith Martin: "Critic at Large: Kultur Klub" (on the Bayreuth Wagner festival)
• John Heilpern: "Opera as Revolution" (on Peter Brook's The Tragedy of Carmen)
• Marc Riboud: photographs of Peter Brook and family, and of Carmen
• Arthur Elgort: photograph of Patrick Dupond
• Denis Piel: photograph of Judith Ivey
• William Wegman: photograph of David Van Tieghem
• Michel Foucault: "How We Behave" (interview)
• Alice Springs: photograph of Michel Foucault
• Philip Burke: illustration
• Blanche McCrary Boyd: "Standing on the Brink of Eternity" (on Carla Wallenda)
• Bruce Davidson: photographs of the Wallendas
• Walter Clemons: "Cole Porter... So Easy to Love So Easy to Idolize All Others Above" (essay)
• Jean Howard: photographs of Cole Porter
• Robert Rosenblum: "Stella's Third Dimension" (on Frank Stella)
• Richard Leslie Schulman: photograph of Frank Stella
• Frank Stella: "Frank Stella Talks About..." (interview)
• Helmut Newton: "Private" (notes and photographs)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Baron Says These Things" (prose)
• Lou Brooks: illustration
• Kenneth McGowan: photograph of Burroughs
• Laura Z. Hobson: "Bosom Buddies" (on Clare Boothe Luce)
• Cecil Beaton: image of Clare Boothe Luce
• Francine du Plessix Gray: "When Memory Goes" (on Nazi war crimes)
• Manuela Hoelterhoff: "Budapest: High Marx for Hedonism" (essay)
• Georges Dauphin: drawing
• John Neary: "Santa Fe: Caught in a hand-woven time warp" (essay)
• Ubiquitous: "Curdled Crème: Vile bodies on the Riviera" (on AIDS in France)
• Moira Hodgson: "Cuisine Explorateur" (prose)
• Arnold Klein: "Zoo Story: What's bugging Washington?" (essay)
• Paul Rudnick: "Tailgate Scandals: Bullshot heard 'round the world" (prose)
• Donald Berthelme: "The Baby" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor in Chief: Leo Lerman
• Managing Editor: Wayne Lawson
• Editors: Jeffrey Burke, Walter Clemons, Anthony HadenGuest, Moira Hodgson, Cathleen Medwick, Elizabeth Pochoda, Stephen Rubin, Suzanne Stephens, Patricia Towers, Tracy Young
• Editorial Design Director: Ruth Ansel
• Art Director: Charles Churchward
• Critic at Large: Judith Martin
• Consulting Editors: Jonathan Lieberson, James Wolcott
• Contributing Editor: Stephen Schiff
• Assistant Editors: April Bernard, Don David Guttenplan, Lisa Hendricksson, John House, Duncan Stalker, Mimi Thompson
• Publisher: Joseph E. Corr, Jr.
• Editorial Director: Alexander Liberman