The Dirty Goat, Issue 4 ("The Beat Generation"), [Summer] 1990

Joe Bratcher III contributes "The 'Writing Machine' as Reading Teacher in The Ticket That Exploded", an essay, pp. 4-9.

This issue also includes a long interview with Burroughs by David Ohle: "The Time of the Wart: From 'The Cat That Walks Alone'", pp. 11-25.

A photo of Burroughs by Robert Mapplethorpe is at page 10.

Burroughs is also mentioned in Harold Norse's selections from his Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, pp. 26-33.

Published in Austin, Texas, US by Host Publications in 1990.

A version of the essay was published as a chapbook by Beat Scene Press in 2007: Mutate or Die -- With Burroughs in Kansas.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), and was acquired through his estate.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Schottlaender v4.C606
• Raven 19900000TDGO.0.4, b17

Contents:

• R. S. Paschall: cover photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: "A Definition of Beat Generation" (transcript, published in Friction, volume 1, number 2/3, July 1982)
• Joe Bratcher III: "The 'Writing Machine' as Reading Teacher in The Ticket That Exploded" (essay)
• Robert Mapplethorpe: "William Burroughs" (photograph)
• David Ohle and William S. Burroughs: "The Time of the Wart: From 'The Cat That Walks Alone'" (interview)
• Harold Norse: "Selections from Memoirs of a Bastard Angel" (memoir)
• Neeli Cherkovski: "Selections from Whitman's Wild Children" (essay)
• David Joel Shapiro: "Narrative Art of Our Time" (on Alfred Leslie)
• Alfred Leslie: "The Killing Cycle":
• "The Narrator" (painting)
• "The Cocktail Party" (painting)
• "The Accident" (painting)
• "The Phone Call" (painting)
• "The Loading Pier" (painting)
• Mel Clay: "Selections from Jazz – Jail and God: Bob Kaufman" (essay/memoir)
• Chris Felver: "Bob Kaufman" (photograph)
• Bob Kaufman:
• "Second April" (poetry)
• "Fragment from Public Secret" (poetry)
• Ralph La Charity: "The Fall from Grace Echoes Faintly Over Coastal Waters Forever" (poetry)
• Edward Mycue: "Flourescent Rabies" (poetry)
• Arthur Winfield Knight: "A Burning Map of the Ponderosa" (poetry)
• Gerald Nicosia: "Selections from Jack in Ghost-Town" (script)
• Contributors

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Elzbieta Szoka, Joe W. Bratcher III
• Design and Layout: Isabel Morgan, Joe W. Bratcher III
• Proofreading: Jacqueline Clarke, Karen Hoffman