Esquire, Volume 70, Number 2, Issue 417, August 1968

Burroughs contributes "Wind Die. You Die. We Die.", pp. 56-57.

Published in Chicago, Illinois, US by Esquire, Inc. in August 1968.

This contribution was later included in the book Exterminator! (1974).

This slightly humidity-warped copy previously in the collection of Burroughs-bibliographer Brian Schottlaender, acquired through Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, MI.).

A second copy is in the archive as well, acquired from the collection of Peter Lennon (Chicago, Illinois, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in M&M
• Shoaf III.122
• Schottlaender V4.C180
• Raven 19680800ESQU.70.2

Selected Contents:

• Arnold Gingrich: "Publisher's Page" (editorial)
• letters
• Richard Joseph: "Travel Notes" (essay)
• Martin Mayer: "Recordings" (essay/review)
• Wilfrid Sheed: "Films" (essay/review)
• unstated: "Backstage with Esquire" (essay)
• Malcolm Muggeridge: "Books" (essay/review)
• Rowland B. Wilson: comic
• Robert Christgau: "Military Personnel Will Not Participate in Any Activity Having to Do with Creating a Union for Enlisted Men" (essay)
• Don Rutledge: photograph
• Michael Mauney: photograph
• Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle: "Mantle Fans Mays, Mays Fans Mantle" (interview)
• Carl Fischer: photographs
• Raquel Welch and Terry O'Neill: "Perfection in an Imperfect World" (photoseries)
• Ed Sorel: illustration
• Michael Zwerin: "Flash!... Wwinchell Is a Reluctant Anachronism... (Ohmigahd!)" (prose)
• Alex Gnidziejko: illustration
• William Burroughs: "Wind Die. You Die. We Die." (prose)
• James Sterba: "The Politics of Pot" (essay)
• Richard Davis: photograph
• Peter Swerdloff: "The Wagumps Are Next to Godliness" (essay)
• James McMullan: drawing
• Michael Herr: "Hell Sucks" (essay)
• Pete Turner: photographs
• Richard Joseph: "Travel for the Man Who Has Had Everywhere" (photoessay)
• Saul Braun: "Until Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson Do Us Part" (essay)
• Hiro: photographs
• Marie Cosindas: photograph
• John Fergus Ryan and Gerald L. K. Smith: "Twilight Years of a Kindly Old Hatesmith" (interview)
• Gabriel Pascalini: painting
• Helen Lawrenson and Lawrence Harvey: "1/5 of Lawrence Harvey" (interview)
• Hugh Nissenson: "The Crazy Old Man" (prose)
• Dean Brown: photograph
• Garry Wills: "Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case!" (essay)
• fashion photoseries
• Roland Wilson: comic

Publishing Information:

• Publisher: Arnold Gingrich
• Associate Publisher: Samuel Ferber
• Editor: Harold T. P. Hayes
• Managing Editor: Don Erickson
• Fashion Director: Oscar E. Schoeffler
• Copy Editor: Catherine H. McBride
• Associate Editors: John Berendt, Alice Glaser, Jill Goldstein, Tom Hedley, Helene Richards, Robert Sherrill
• Fiction Editor: Robert Brown
• Contributing Editors: Robert Benton, David Newman, Jack Richardson, Gay Telese, Garry Wills
• Art Director: Samuel N. Antupit
• Assistant Art Director: Walter Bernard
• Art Associate: Sheila Berger
• Travel Editor: Richard Joseph
• Fashion Editor: Chip Tolbert
• Associate Fashion Editor: Michael Bonavita
• et al