Beat Scene, Issue 24, n.d. [c. Winter 1996]

 

Light on Burroughs this issue. Kevin Ring reviews William S. Burroughs' Ghost of Chance at page 37.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press. Undated, likely early 1996.

This copy acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, MI.).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19960100BSCE.0.24

Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Beats & Co." (book news)
• "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965" (review of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum, NYC)
• review of William Burroughs' Ghost of Chance
• review of Charles Bukowski: Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s-1970s, Vol. 2, edited by Seamus Cooney
• review of Gary Snyder's A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
• review of Michael McClure's Lighting the Corners: Essays and Interviews on Art, Nature, and the Visionary
• review of Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels
• Todd Bauer: 
• "Jerry Garcia" (memorial)
• "An Evening and Morning with Ken Kesey" (memoir)
• Jon Rogers: "Allen Ginsberg: The Recordings" (essay, listing)
• Robert Crumb: illustration
• Jim McWilliams: illustration
• Ann Charters: photographs
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph
• Daniel Barth and Ann Charters: "There Will Be No Four Dots" (interview on the Jack Kerouac Estate)
• Herbert Huncke: photograph
• Jerry Bauer: photograph
• Gerald Nicosia: 
• photographs
• "Buddha-gate at NYU" (essay on the Jack Kerouac Estate and Jan Kerouac)
• Ken Miller: photograph
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Statement for Jan Kerouac" (letter)
• Duarte Moniz: photograph
• Jan Kerouac: statement outlining her case on the Estate of her father Jack
• Victoria McCulloch:
• review of The Return of the Reforgotten at Albert Hall, London, October 1995
• "Angels Still Falling: Richard Deakin's Kerouac Play" (interview)
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Peter Whitehead's film Wholly Communion
• review of Wormwood Review, issues 138 and 139
• review of michael McClure's Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac
• "Codex Are Go Now" (on the Codex music label)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Terry Southern" (essay)
• "review of Gene Lees' Cats of Any Colour: Jazz, Black and White
• review of Peter McSloy's For Jazz
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of Dick McBride's The Astonished I
• review of The Cafe Review, issue 6
• Pauline Reeves: review of Leonard Cohen's Death of a Lady's Man
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• review of Jack Kerouac's Book of Blues
• review of Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems, edited by George F. Butterick
• Brian Dalton: review of Bill Morgan's The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News: Pauline Reeves, Dawn Swoop, Sophia Nitrate
• American Correspondents: Todd Bauer, Daniel Barth
• Layout: Nivek Gnir [Kevin Ring]