Room 100, Issue 1, n.d. [2006]

Scarce hotel-distributed magazine with "William Burroughs' Last Stand" noted on the cover, corresponding with the article by Max Blagg -- a recollection of the First Interzone Beat Festival at the Beat Hotel at Desert Hot Springs, CA. entitled "The Place of Dead Roads", pp. 26-27. 

This covers Blagg's experiences with Burroughs' literature, the event, and the Hotel, which was filled with Burroughs artifacts and books.  

The hotel closed the following year after proprietor Steven Lowe unexpectedly died.

Published in New York City by Thompson Hotels in mid-to-late 2006.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20060000ROHU.0.1

Selected Contents: 

• fashion 
• book reviews
• Steve Garbarino 
• "Checking In" (editorial)
• "Nighty Night!" (on the Reptile House at the New Orleans' Audubon Zoo)
• Ned Merrill: "Raise a Glass!" (on the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)
• Marianne Hagan: "Solo Artist" (on music-video producer David Naylor, interview)
• John Clarke, Jr.: "Watch Your Back!" (on Freeman's Sporting Club)
• Max Blagg: "The Place of Dead Roads" (on the First Annual Interzone Beat Festival at the Desert Hot Springs Beat Hotel)
• Jeff Johnson: "Cabin Fever" (on Hunter S. Thompson and his books)
• Chris Wilson: "Cellar, Beware!" (on Tracy Westmoreland's Siberia)
  
• Matt Diehl: "Whisky a Go Go: An Oral History" (interviews)
• Sye Williams: "Drive-by Shooting" (photoessay)
• Eddie Brannan, Ben Watts: "I, Matador" (essay, interview with Adrien Brody)
• Jeffrey Slonim: "Genius!" (interview with Christopher Makos)
• James Servin: "Going Up?" (on actress Olivia Wilde)
• Aaron Richter, Michael Schmelling: "Here we are now, going to the Lower East Side..." (interviews with Moby, Asobi Seksu, Dragons of Zynth)
• Mike Ruffino, Randall Slavin: "Suite Dreams" (on Lydia Hearst-Shaw)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor-in-Chief: Steve Garbarino
• Creative Director: Bryan Erickson
• Features Editor: Ray Rogers
• Managing Editor: Jess Holl
• Photography Directors: Shannon Hall, Stephanie Waxlax
• Fashion Director: Elizabeth Sulcer
• Assistant Market Editor: Bryan Lavandowski
• Production Editor: Amy Steinhauser
• Senior Designer: Tamara Wiesen
• Copy Editor: Pamela Vittorio
• Research Editor: Snigdha Hoirala
• Publisher: Jason Pomeranc