Beat Scene, Issue 66, Autumn 2011

Burroughs mentions throughout, including in an interview with Gregory Corso by Robert King (minor mentions, not shown here).

Includes "A Word Is a Word Is a Collage: A Profile of William S. Burroughs" by Bill Butler, pp. 8-9, an interview with William S. Burroughs originally published in the November 27, 1965 issue of The Guardian (UK).

"The Life of William Seward Burroughs: A Timeline" appears at pages 48-52, a timeline of events in Burroughs life -- inaccurate in spots, but a good overview.

Jed Birmingham of RealityStudio contributes "My Burroughs", pp. 53-54, of a Burroughs in an alternate reality.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Kevin Ring, Beat Scene Press in Fall of 2011.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20111000BSCE.0.66

Contents: 

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "From the Archives: An Interview with Michael Basinski" (interview)
• "Hope Savage, Mystery Girl" (essay)
• "The Life of William Seward Burroughs: A Timeline" (timeline) 
• review of Barry Miles' In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture
• interview with Robert Niemi on The Ultimate Illustrated Beats Chronology
• "Joy Walsh on Moody Street" (on Moody Street Irregulars)
• on Brahja Waldman's Quartet
• Bill Butler: "A Word Is a Word Is a Collage: A Profile of William S. Burroughs"
• Eddie Woods: "Three Gregory Corso Anecdotes" (essay)
• William M. Gargan: "Gregory Corso at Brooklyn College" (essay)
• James McKenzie: quote
• Robert King, Gregory Corso, John Little, and Doug Rankin: "Gregory Corso, Grand Forks, Dakota" (interview)
• Michael Kearns: "Peter Berg: Co-Founder of the Diggers Dies Aged 73" (essay)
• Gregory Stephenson: "'Crazy Dumbsaint of the Mind': Jack Kerouac and Harpo Marx" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "Harry Kemp: The Tramp Poet" (essay)
• Walt Whitman: quote
• John Cohassey: "Answering Whitman's Call: America's Original Poet Rebel and the Beats" (essay)
• Christopher Luna, Stan Brakhage, Michael McClure: "The Flame is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure, 1961-1978" (letters)
• Jed Birmingham: "My Burroughs" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: review of Dan Fante's Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving: A Memoir
• Ann Charters: on Gordon Ball's East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Charles Upton's The Wars of Love and Other Poems
• on MimeoMimeo, issue 4
• Robert Tudor: review of Colin Wilson's Adrift in Soho
• Dawn Swoop: review of Alan Watts' Tao: The Watercourse Way

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlet Letters