Beat Scene, Issue 21, undated [c. December 1994]

Mentions of Burroughs are sprinkled throughout this issue. Includes a few pages on "The Beat Generation: Legacy and Celebration" at New York University, pp. 4-6 -- Burroughs is lightly mentioned.

Steve Perrin contributes "So, Who Was Jane Bowles?" an essay on Jane Bowles which mentions Burroughs and Gysin in Tangier, pp. 8-12. 

On page 13, "William Seward Burroughs: The Records" affords a short list of Burroughs recordings.

An interview with Sinclair Beiles by Michael Butterworth discusses Beiles time at the Beat Hotel with Gysin and Burroughs, and his support in organizing Burroughs' The Naked Lunch.

A review by Sophia Nitrate of Burroughs' Break Through in Grey Room is on page 33, along with a Burroughs mention in a review of Laurie Anderson's Bright Red.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Kevin Ring / Beat Scene Press around December 1994.

This copy acquired directly from Kevin Ring.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19941200BSCE.0.21

Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Beats & Co" (news)
• "William Seward Burroughs: The Records" (list)
• "Neal Cassady... Part Three: Furthur [sic] Up the Road" (essay)
• "Jack Kerouac... See You in Court" (essay)
• review of Laurie Anderson's Bright Red
• review of Allen Ginsberg's Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992
• review of James Lester's Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
• review of Jules Schwerin's Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson Queen of Gospel
• reviews of Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy and The Favourite Game
• review of Gary Snyder's No Nature: New and Selected Poems
• review of the film Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider
• review of John L. Dorfner's Kerouac: Visions of Lowell
• review of Allen Ginsberg's Snapshot Poetics: A Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era
• review of John Arthur Maynard's Venice West: The Beat Generation in Southern California
• Todd Bauer:
• "NY Beats" (on "The Beat Generation: Legacy and Celebration" at NYU)
• "The Prankster Returns" (essay/interview with Ken Babbs about Ken Kesey)
• Daniel Barth:
• "NY Beats 2" (on "The Beat Generation: Legacy and Celebration" at NYU)
• review of Last Go Round by Ken Babbs and Ken Kesey
• Steve Perrin: "So, Who Was Jane Bowles?" (essay)
• Graham Oliver: "William Everson" (obituary)
• Howard Park: "A Special Letter to Beat Scene" (letter)
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• "Herbert Huncke: Almost Guilty of Everything" (review of Herbert Huncke's From Dream to Dream)
• "Growls, Tap Dances and Snores in a Grey Room Vision" (review of William S. Burroughs' Break Through in Grey Room)
• review of Charles Bukowski's Poems and Insults
• review of Hunter S. Thompson's Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie Trapped Like a Rat in Mr. Bill's Neighbourhood
• Michael Butterworth and Sinclair Beiles: "Classic Beat Interviews" (interview)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Beat Jazz: Swing is the Thing" (combined reviews)
• "Chet and Frank" (combined reviews)
• review of Chris Craker's Get into Jazz
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Ted Gioia's West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960
• review of Paul Hoover's Postmodern American Poetry
• Ray Dan: review of Jack Kerouac: The Bootleg Era: An Annotated List
• Dawn Swoop: 
• "The Heat is On" (reviews of Eric Priestley's Abracadabra and Charles Bivens' Music in Silence)
• review of Anaïs Nin's The Early Diary: 1927-1931
• Pauline Reeves: review of Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries
• Steve Perrin: review of Alexander Trocchi's Thongs
• Jon Rogers: review of Allen Ginsberg's LP Holy Roll Jelly Soul: Poems & Songs 1949-1993

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News: Pauline Reeves, Sophia Nitrate, Dawn Swoop
• Layout: Nivek Gnir [Kevin Ring in reverse :-)]