Harper's, Volume 300, Number [Issue] 1797, February 2000

Burroughs contributes "Cats, Now and Forever" [a title chosen by Harper's], from Last Words, pp. 28-30.

Published in New York City by Harper's Magazine Foundation in February 2000.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf III.423
• Schottlaender v4.C653, v5.C700
• Raven 20000200HARP.300.1797

Selected Contents: 

• letters
• Lewis H. Lapham: "Notebook: Merit Badges" (essay)
• Stuart Dybek: "Field Trips" (prose)
• John Ashbery: "The Water Inspector" (prose/poem)
• Mary Berridge: "from On the Eve: Moscow 1998" (photograph)
• Dan Woog and various children: "A Class Outing" (letters)
• unstated: "There's a Place in France" (essay)
• Richard Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman: "All the Philosopher King's Men" (conversation)
• Rev. Ethan Acres: "Final Voyage of the Beagle" (photograph)
• unstated: "Take My Pregnant Wife – Please" (letter)
• Fidel Castro: "Havana Be Your Valentine" (letter)
• David E. Wyatt: "Beer and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" (emails)
• Cosimo Cavallaro: "Room 114" (photograph)
• Karl Rove: "Master of His Own Domain" (URLs)
• unstated: "Quit Avramizing, You Squirtus" (definitions)
• William S. Burroughs: "Cats, Now and Forever" (diary entries)
• Vik Muniz: "4,000 Yards (Apple Trees, after Gerhard Richter)" (art)
• Simon Schama: "Visualizing History" (essay)
• Shimon Attie: "Slide Projection of Former Jewish Resident and Hat Shop, circa 1930, Berlin, 1993" (installation view)
• Joe Conason: "Notes on a Native Son: I. The George W. Bush Success Story" (essay)
• Kevin Phillips: "Notes on a Native Son: II. The Prospect of a Bush Restoration" (essay)
• Michael Witte: illustration
• Daren Fonda: "Guerrilla Capitalism" (essay)
• Jeffrey Tayler: "Back in the U.S.S.R.?" (essay)
• Paul Fusco: photographs
• Jack London: The Sun-Dog Trail" (prose)
• David Johnson: illustration
• Lee Seigel: "Every Sweatshop Has a Silver Lining" (review of New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns)
• Ray Bartkus: illustration
• Kathryn Harrison: "Connubial Abyss" (combined review)
• William Gay: "The Paperhanger" (prose)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Lewis H. Lapham
• Deputy Editor: Colin Harrison
• Managing Editor: Ellen Rosenbush
• Senior Editors: Charis Conn, Clara Jeffery, Ben Metcalf
• Art Director: Angela Riechers
• Associate Editors: Margaret Cordi, Roger D. Hodge, Donovan Hohn, John J. Sullivan
• Assistant Editors: Elizabeth Giddens, Rachel A. Monahan, Paul Reyes, Sarah C. Vos
• Assistant to the Editor: Ann Kyle Gollin
• Editorial Interns: Carin Besser, David Miller, Aaron Marr Page, Bill Wasik
• Art Intern: Stacey D. Clarkson
• Contributing Editors: Scott Anderson, Charles Bowden, Susan Burton, L. J. Davis, Edwin Dobb, Mark Edmundson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ted C. Fishman, David Guterson, Tony Hendra, Jack Hitt, Barbara Jones, Barry Lopez, Joel Lovell, Peter Marin, Vince Passaro, George Plimpton, Michael Pollan, Francine Prose, Paul Roberts, Richard Rodriguez, Elizabeth Rubin, David Samuels, Bob Shacochis, Earl Shorris, Lee Siegel, Patrick Symmes, Paul Tough, David Foster Wallace, Tom Wolfe
• et al