Beat Scene, Issue 14, undated [late 1991]

Burroughs and Cronenberg on the cover. Contains "William Burroughs... The Last Gleaming?" by Kevin Ring, pp.2-3, an article on the Cronenberg film adaption of Naked Lunch. 

Michael White contributes "The Death of Pan", a review of Apocalypse by William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring on page 3.

A two-page spread of stills from the film Naked Lunch is on pages 4-5.

A reproduction of the 1-page advertisement for "On The Road: The Jack Kerouac Conference" – held in Boulder July 23 through August 1, 1982 – is on page 38, noting Burroughs' active presence at the conference.

John Giorno contributes an entry at pages 40-41 for its support of the AIDS Treatment Project, with a photograph including Burroughs.

A reproduced press photo for the movie Naked Lunch – with David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs, and Peter Weller – is at page 46.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Kevin Ring / Beat Scene Press in late 1991, likely.

This copy acquired directly from Kevin Ring.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19910000BSCE.0.14

Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "William Burroughs... The Last Gleaming" (on Cronenberg's film adaption of Naked Lunch)
• "Life at the Movies" (on Jim Carroll)
• "Beats & Co." (review)
• "Richard Brautigan: Gone Troutfishing" (essay)
• "The Shadow: Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Men? The Shadow Knows" (essay)
• "Beat News Extra" (news)
• "Charles Plymell: The Sixties and Psychic Cataclysms" (essay)
• "Young Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• review of Paul Theroux's Travelling the World
• review of Ed Gary Pulsifer's Paul Bowles by His Friends
• review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, read by Allen Ginsberg
• Michael White: "The Death of Pan" (review of Apocalypse by William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring)
• First Independent Films Ltd.: Naked Lunch film stills
• Robert Winson and Philip Whalen: "Philip Whalen... Enough Said?" (interview)
• Colin Cooper:
• review of Clinton Heylin's Dylan Behind the Shades: The Biography
• review of James Joyce's Poems and Exiles
• review of Clinton Heylin's Dylan Behind the Shades: The Biography
• Daniel Barth: review of Keith Abbott's Downstream from Troutfishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan
• Charles Bukowski:
• "as you slow a few steps the mermaids look the other way" (poetry)
• "please liberate yourselves as you promised to do" (poetry)
• "outside the racetrack just before the 9th race" (poetry)
• Todd Brendan Fahey: "Owl Farm Dilemma" (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac: page reproduction from the draft of The Town and the City
• John Giorno: "Giorno Poetry Systems... AIDS Treatment Project 1991." (fundraising)
• Dave King:
• review of Mary Pat Kelly's Martin Scorsese: A Journey
• review of Lawrence Sutin's Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
• review of John Coltrane's The Major Works of John Coltrane
• review of John Bauldie's Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan
• Alessandro Ricco: review of the Serpent's Tail anthology Disorderly Conduct
• Jim Burns:
• "Waiting for Dizzy" (review of the book by Gene Lees)
• review of Dave Cunliffe's Blackburn Brainswamp
• "What's this Cat's Story?: Seymour Krim" (essay)
• review of the Grateful Dead's Ken Nordine Devout Catalyst
• Pauline Reeves:
• review of Ed Rolf Vasellari's The Arthur Rimbaud Book
• reviews of Granta, issues 37 and 38
• review of Franz Kafka's The Transformation and Other Stories
• Dawn Swoop: review of Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice
• First Independent Films Limited: press photo for Naked Lunch (film)
• Rick Peabody: review of Angry Women by Andrea Juno and V. Vale

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News: Pauline Reeves and Sophia Nitrate