Esquire, Volume 108, Number 3, September 1987

Burroughs contributes "The Valley", from The Western Lands (chapter 10), pp. 215-216.

Burroughs also receives a brief mention in Neal Karlen's "Gin, Sin, and Floozies" in the context of the Ace edition of Junkie, p. 46.

Published in New York City by Esquire Associates in September, 1987.

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Selected Contents:

Lee Eisenberg: "The Big Picture" (editorial on Sears)
letters
fashion
Geoffrey Norman: "Double-Barrelled Beauty" (on hunting)
John Berendt: "Boxer Shorts" (essay)
Neal Karlen: "Gin, Sin, and Floozies" (on mass-market paperbacks)
Joseph Harlen: "Where the Tasting Never Stops" (on wineries)
William Grimes: "Licorice Shtick" (on Sambuca)
John Mariani: "How Italians Say Shanks" (on Tony Cortese)
Bob Greene: "It's About Your Heart" (prose)
Mark Jacobsen: "Grave New World" (on teenage drug use and sex)
John Poppy: "Gut Strength" (on exercise)
Donald R. Katz: "Are MLPs Worth a Shot" (financial)
Glenn Eichler: "A Wait That's Worth the Wait" (on airport lounges)
Lawrence Gallagher: "Mailing Away for a House" (real estate)
Stanley Bing: "Hire Me, I'm Yours" (on job interviews)
Peter D. Lawrence: "Saving $500 – the Easy Way" (financial)
Mark Gill: "Turning Health into Wealth" (on Healthsouth)
Adam Smith: "Are Asians Really That Much Smarter?" (on education)
Donald R. Katz: "The Big Store (part 1" (on Sears Roebuck)
Arnold Newman and unstated author: "In the Listening Room of Ahmet Ertegun" (on the CEO of Atlantic Records)
Douglas Frantz: "The Unraveling of Dennis Levine" (essay)
John Ed Bradley: "Whiskey Land, USA – Booker Noe, Prop." (essay)
William S. Burroughs: "The Valley" (prose)
Nora Ephron: "Ms. Grossberg's Legs" (prose)
Tobias Wolff: "Smorgasbord" (prose)
Lynda Barry: "De-Briefing" (comic)

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