Beat Scene, Issue 16, undated [early 1993]

Burroughs and Gysin are mentioned throughout. Includes "Here To Go Again" by Kevin Ring, p.17, a list of Gysin (and Burroughs) related works including The Here To Go Tapes (Subliminal Tapes) and Man From Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment by Joe Ambrose, Terry Wilson, and Frank Rynne; a review by Joe Ambrose of the Gysin publication I.C.B.M. 23 is at the same page. Three Burroughs-related reviews are at pages 36-37: (a) a review by Colin Cooper of Barry Miles' William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible; (b) a review by Michael White of Burroughs' The Cat Inside; (c) a review by Jon Rogers of William S. Burroughs' LP Break Through In Grey Room.

Published in Binley Wood, England by Beat Scene Press (Kevin Ring) in late 1992, unstated in issue.

This copy acquired directly from Kevin Ring

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf IV.162 [as a 1992 issue, which is not correct given the Gillespie interview and Didion review]
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19930100BSCE.0.16

Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• "Here To Go Again" (on Gysin-related releases)
• "Kenneth Rexroth" (on Lee Bartlett's Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters and Linda Hamalian's A Life of Kenneth Rexroth)
• on Joan Didion's Sentimental Journeys
• on Ann Charters' The Penguin Book of the Beats
• review of Louis Jordan's The Complete Recordings 1938-1941
• review of Slim & Slam's Complete Recordings 1938-1942
• review of Timothy Leary's You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
• music reviews
• Kevin Ring and Ann Charters: "Ann Charters: A Beat Journey" (interview)
• Eric Marks: "Really Lost Books" (on Victor Levy Beaulieu's Jack Kerouac: A Chicken Essay)
• Michelle Engle: drawing of Dizzy Gillespie
• Jim Burns:
• "Dizzy Gillespie: 1917-1993" (memorial)
• "Beat Women" (essay)
• review of Bill Manville's Saloon Society
• "A Jazz Life" (on Bill Crow's From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life)
• "Drumming Life" (on Roy Porter's There and Back)
• "Good Times Rolling" (on John Chilton's Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music)
• "Bud's Blues" (on Alan Groves' and Alyn Shipton's The Glass Enclosure: The Life of Bud Powell)
• Joe Ambrose: "Brion Gysin I.C.B.M. 23" (review)
• Robert Drever: "Ken Kesey's Great Notions" (essay)
• Amy Skov: illustration
• Sheppard Powell: photo of Diane di Prima
• Charles Bukowski: "'PULP', Chapter 45"
• Colin Cooper:
• on Barry Miles' William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible
• review of Gary Pulsifer's Paul Bowles: By His Friends
• "Shouting the Blues" (essay)
• Michael White: on William S. Burroughs' The Cat Inside
• Jon Rogers: on William S. Burroughs' LP Break Through In Grey Room
• Jay Jones: "Fear and Loathing" (on Paul Perry's The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson)

Publishing Information:

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