Beat Scene, Issue 10, n.d. [Summer 1990]

The inside cover contains a full page advertisement for Giorno Poetry Systems, including the video Burroughs by Howard Brookner, and the Burroughs-containing LPs Like a Girl, I Want You to Keep Coming and A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse; this supports an essay on Giorno Poetry Systems at pages 30-31.

On page 2, Burroughs is pictured in a photograph with other Beats in Tangier accompanying the essay "Gregory Corso: Closely Observed" by Jeffrey Smalldon.

There is a brief mention of Burroughs singing a Marlene Dietrich song on an album being released by Island Records [Dead City Radio] at page 13.

Inside the rear cover is a photograph of Burroughs reading (multiple exposure).

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press (Kevin Ring) around the Summer of 1990.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19900700BSCE.0.10

Contents:

• Jeffrey Smalldon: "Gregory Corso: Closely Observed" (essay)
• Jack Micheline: "Night City" (poetry)
• Stewart Paine:
• review of Charles Bukowski's Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems
• "Kerouac and the Rhino" (on the Rhino Records re-release of Kerouac's albums)
• "Four of the Best" (brief reviews of: Salvador Dali's Hidden Faces; Jean Cocteau's Opium; Stevie Smith's Some Are More Human than Others; Paul Bowles' Two Years Before the Strait)
• "Crisis? What Crisis?" (on the magazine Crisis)
• "Black Sparrow Collection" (on Black Sparrow Press releases)
• review of Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask
• review of Pietro Citati's Kafka
• Paul Harvey: "Mauretania Comics presents True Love Stories from the Modern World" (comic)
• Charles Bukowski: "Nirvanna [sic]" (poetry)
• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• review of The Bob Dylan Companion, edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman
• review of Fish Drum magazine, issues 4-5
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Life Off the Road" (on Carolyn Cassady's Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg)
• review of Marcel Montecino's The Cross Killer
• review or In Transition: A Paris Anthology
• review of T. J. Binyon's Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction
• review of Stan Barstow's A Brother's Tale 
• review of John Updike's Self-Conscious Memoirs
• review of Sandra M. Gilbert's Acts of Attention: The Poems of D. H. Lawrence
• Dawn Swoop: 
• "Andy Sheppard: Soft on the Inside" (essay/review)
• "Our Father's [sic] Who Aren't In Heaven" (on Lydia Lunch's Widowspeak label)
• "Beating the System" (on Giorno Poetry Systems)
• review of Paul Rambali's French Blues
• review of Adrian Hodges' Sweet Dreams, Baby
• Jim Burns: 
• "Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side" (on Algren's A Life on the Wild Side)
• review of the magazine Ostinato
• review of John Chilton's The Song of the Hawk
• review of The Way We Lived Then: The English Story in the 1940s edited by Woodrow Wyatt
• Jim Burns and Allen Ginsberg: "Talking with Ginsberg" (interview)
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• on Harry Crews' Naked in Garden Hills
• review of Thomas McGuane's Ninety-Two in the Shade
• Charles Plymell: "The Sixties and Psychic Cataclysms" (excerpt, prose)
• Pauline Reeves: 
• review of Hugo Williams' Self Portrait with a Slide
• review of Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
• on comics from Titan Books
• review of Granta, issue 31
• review of both The Time Out New York Guide and The Time Out Paris Guide
• review of Lindaw Wagner Martin's Sylvia Plath: A Biography
• Bill Wyatt: "Bare Bones Zen" (review of Red Pine's The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma and of Bassui's Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks)
• Carol Benyon: 
• review of Ian Frazier's Great Plains
• review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
• review of Anne Waldman's Helping the Dreamer
• review of Jenny Hobbs' Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary
• review of Emily Stansfield's Slightly Like Strangers
• review of Jay Gummerman's We Find Ourselves in Moontown
• review of Adam Thorpe's Meeting Montaigne
• Pat Murphy: 
• "The Full Force" (on Pan horror books)
• on Will Eisner's The Spirit
• on V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• review of Damon Runyon's Off Broadway and his From First to Last
• review of Marc Eliot's Phil Ochs: Death of a Rebel
• review of Alan Ryan's Bertrand Russell: A Political Life
• Adrian Boot: cover photograph of Ginsberg

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Laurence Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News: Pauline Reeves and Sophia Nitrate
• USA Correspondents: Sean Thomas Dougherty, Paul Marion, Rick Peabody
• Typesetting: Charlie Pritchard at The Printworks