Esquire, Volume 60, Number 1, Issue 356, July 1963

Burroughs appears in a section "The Structure of the American Literary Establishment" by L. Rust Hills, at page 42 in a set of names grouped under "The Cool World" – Burroughs is called one of the "Three Beat Saints" and is also named under the set of writers published by Grove Press.

Burroughs is additionally discussed in multiple points in Norman Mailer's essay "Norman Mailer versus Nine Authors", pp. 63-69, 105, in which William S. Burroughs is noted as one of the nine.

There is an additional mention of Burroughs earlier in the issue in reference to a work-in-progress entitled Johnny’s So Long at the Fair (which became The Ticket That Exploded).

Published in New York City by Esquire, Inc. in July 1963.

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Contents:

• Arnold Gingrich: "Publisher's Page" (editorial)
• letters
• Dwight MacDonald: "Films: Orson Welles and His Magic Steam Engine" (essay)
• Richard Joseph: "Travel Notes" (on Switzerland)
• John Filler: photoessay on living in the Lower East Side
• George Alexrod: photoessay
• Robert N. Linscott: "Faulkner without Fanfare" (prose)
• L. Rust Hills: "The Structure of the American Literary Establishment" (essay/lists)
• Gay Talese: "Looking for Hemingway" (prose)
• Alice Glaser: "Back On the Open Road for Boys" (photoessay on Allen Ginsberg in India)
• John Cheever: excerpt from A Wapshot Scandal (prose)
• Vladimir Nabokov: excerpt from The Art of the Duel (prose)
• Robert Penn Warren: excerpt from The Fiddlersburg Preacher (prose)
• James Jones and William Styron: "Two Writers Talk It Over" (interview)
• Edward Albee: "A Novel Beginning" (prose)
• Flannery O'Connor: "Why Do the Heathens Rage?" (prose)
• Saul Bellow: "Letter to Doctor Edvig" (prose)
• Norman Mailer: "Norman Mailer Versus Nine Writers" (essay/review)
• Terry Southern: "An Investigation of the Mid-Century Literary Phenomenon in which Mr. Spillane, a Popular Novelist of His Day, Chooses to Assay the Role of his Hero, Mike Hammer, in a Motion Picture Interpretation of a Book, Thereby Inciting Curious Speculation" (essay)
• Malcolm Cowley: "The Last of the Lost Generation" (essay)
• Eleanor Perényi: "Wilson" (on Edmund Wilson)
• Semyon Shimin: painting of Scott Fitzgerald
• Scott Fitzgerald: "Love to All of You, of All Generations" (letters)
• fashion
• Richard Joseph: "A Short Course in Perfection" (on the Swiss hotel school)

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