Winter 1999/2000
Publishing lore has it that a magazine's seventeenth issue is always the most difficult one, and, boy, was it right in Speak's case! Prior to this issue's publication, the magazine was briefly pronounced dead, peering at its own lifeless carcus from above. Because of Speak's late and unexpected revival, writers were given assignments with the addendum, "oh, and can you turn that around in two days?"

Content
Interviews with writers Ellen Willis, Eve Sedgwick, musicians David Byrne and Pauline Oliveros.

Apocalypse Already: Los Angeles' Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Every Dog Will Have Its Cake: a California bakery for dogs.

Slash and Burn: a narrative model for the millennium.

Fun Lovin' Criminals: British mobsters make a killing.

The Poet is Always on Time: notes on Charles Olson.

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