Beat Scene, Number 106, Late Winter [February] 2023

This issue contains a number of Burroughs-related items:

a full page image of Burroughs at initial page;
"William Burroughs, Christmas Day, 1966" by Dawn Swoop, pp. 12-13, on Burroughs' letter to Gysin on December 23, 1966;
"Burroughs: 'Hurry Up, It's Time'" by Anne Waldman, pp. 14-15, a reflection on Burroughs written in 1997 and unpublished;
"Demi Raven In Search of William Burroughs: A Conversation" -- an interview by Kevin Ring with Demi Raven, Burroughs (and Gysin) collector, researcher, and webmaster of Outskirts of the City [this site!], pp. 37-41;
"The Curious Death of Ian Sommerville" by Mike Kearns, p. 45, on Burroughs' friend and lover
“At Play in the Circles of Hell: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs”, a review of Burroughs’ book by Herb Gold, from the March 10, 1966 issue of The [London] Sunday Times

Published in Coventry, England by Beat Scene Press in February, 2023.

This copy acquired from Kevin Ring at Beat Scene Press (Coventry, England).

Bibliographic Information:

Contents:

"Gregory Corso is Hung Up" (essay on Corso's play In This Hung Up Age)
"Take Care of My Ghost" (on John Montgomery, and his Take Care of My Ghost)
"Demi Raven In Search of William Burroughs: A Conversation" (interview with Outskirts of the City webmaster and Burroughs collector/researcher Demi Raven)
"Saving Terry Southern's Wolsey Fickett" (on Southern's script The Private War of Wolsey Fickett)
"Jack Kerouac... A Moment in Time" (On Kerouac's The Town and the City)

Sophia Nitrate: "Gregory Corso Gets to San Francisco" (on a Corso letter to "Hans")
Colin Cooper:

"Heart Beat: What They Said Back Then" (essay on the film Heart Beat, on Kerouac)
review of The Works of Iain Sinclair: A Descriptive Bibliography by Will Shutes

Anne Waldman: "Burroughs: 'Hurry Up, It's Time" (a memorial piece on Burroughs)
Tom Willems: "Bob Dylan and Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Bob Dylan" (on the relationship between Dylan and Ferlighetti, including bibliography)
Eric Jacobs:

"Larry Fagin" (essay on Fagin)
"Neal Cassady Through the Eyes of his Daughter Jami" (film review)
review of Someday We'll Build Cabins: The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith, and Lois Sorrells Beckwith
"Really Lost Books" (a review of Gurney Norman's Divine Right's Trip: A Folk Tale)

"The Curious Death of Ian Sommerville" (on Sommerville's demise)
review of Riding Pegasus Bareback: Notes on Gregory Corso by Gregory Stephenson

John Dunton: "Brion Gysin (1916-1986): The Last Museum" (bio of Gysin, review)
Herb Gold: "At Play in the Circles of Hell: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs" (review)
Pauline Reeves:

"James Campbell on the Road" (review of Just Go Down the Road: A Memoir of Travel and Trouble by James Campbell)
"Harold Chapman" (on Harold Chapman and his photo-book The Beat Hotel)

Publishing Information:

Outskirts of the City