Beat Scene, Issue 49, Winter 2005/2006

Includes "Billy Burroughs and the Strange Story of Cursed from Birth" by Eric Jacobs, pp. 20-22, about William S. Burroughs' son.

Kevin Ring interviews John Geiger in "Brion Gysin: Nothing Is True", pp. 23-24, which mentions Burroughs throughout and includes a photo of Burroughs and John Geiger together (on Burroughs' porch); a review of Geiger's biography of Gysin follows.

James Birmingham of RealityStudio contributes "The Doctor Is on the Market", pp. 44-48, on Ken Lopez, the Vaduz Archive of Burroughs material, and Bob Jackson (the seller at that time).

A review of John Geiger's Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine -- which features Burroughs on its cover -- is at page 51.

An advertisement for Naropa University with a full-page picture of Burroughs is at page 54.

A review by Colin Cooper of William S. Burroughs: You Can't Win: An Interview with Anne Waldman and John Oughton is at page 60.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene (Kevin Ring) in late 2005.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20051200BSCE.0.49

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Johnny Brewton's X-Ray Book Co." (interview)
• "Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City: An Epic Saga?" (essay)
• review of City Moon Review, volume 6, number 2
• review of Wildflowers:A Woodstock Mountain Poetry Anthology
• review of Edward Sanders' Stanzas for Social Change
• review of David Meltzer's David's Copy
• combined review of ruth weiss' Full Circle, White is All Colors, and 3 Farben: Weiss
• review of Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee
• review of Steve Edington's The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation Writers as Spirit Guides
• review of Paul Maher Jr.'s Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac
• review of Jim Jones' Carl Solomon: Report from the Sane Asylum
• review of Daithidth Maceochhaidh's Travels with Chinaski
• Kevin Ring and John Geiger: "Brion Gysin: Nothing Is True" (interview)
• Pamela Hardyment: "When Corso Came to Stay" (essay)
• Jonah Raskin:
• "'High' Philip Lamantia" (essay)
• "Gallery Six Remembered" (essay)
• John Suiter and Philip Lamantia: "Philip Lamantia: An Interview" (interview)
• Chris Felver: photographs
• Tony Lane: photograph
• Joan Jobe Smith:
• photographs
• "Love, Bukowski" (essay)
• Edwin Pouncey and Ken Kesey: "Ken Kesey's Invisible Jukebox" (listing/interview)
• Eric Jacobs:
• "Billy Burroughs and the Strange Story of Cursed from Birth" (essay)
• review of John Geiger's Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin
• review of What Happened to Kerouac?, a film by Richard Lerner and Lewis MacAdams
• review of Howl for Now, edited by Simon Warner
• Arthur Knight: photographs
• Jack Foley: "Howl Redux at the Herbst Theater" (essay)
• Thomas P. Healy: "The Legacy of Lono" (essay)
• Jim Burns:
• "Bird Breaks Down" (essay)
• review of the film Factotum
• Jim Burns and Matt Dillon: "Factotum" (interview)
• Greg Keeler:
• "Don't Move" (on Gary Snyder)
• "Dreaming Richard Brautigan" (essay)
• Larry Keenan: photograph
• James Birmingham: "The Doctor Is on the Market" (essay)
• John Hopkins: photograph
• Brion Gysin: photograph
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Beat Collection, edited by Barry Miles
• review of Steven Frattali's Hypodermic Light: The Poetry of Philip Lamantia and the Question of Surrealism
• review of Virginia Spencer Carr's Paul Bowles: A Life
• Colin Cooper:
• review of Mark SaFranko's Hating Olivia
• review of John Geiger's Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine [sic]
• review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti'sAmericus I
• review of William S. Burroughs: You Can't Win: An Interview with Anne Waldman and John Oughton
• Tony O'Neill: review of Dan Fante's Corksucker
• Pauline Reeves: review of Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, edited by William T. Lawlor
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of Jim Jones' Jack Kerouac in Seattle
• review of Ron Dart's Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades
• review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sits Down with Soheyl Dahi

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research/News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters