Beat Scene, Issue 30, n.d. [Winter (early) 1998]

Burroughs has a few small mentions in essays in this issue, but is well-represented in the news and reviews.

The "Beats & Co." news section compiled by Pauline Reeves, Todd Bauer, and Dan Barth notes the release of the The Best of William Burroughs CD set from Giorno Poetry Systems, a "William Burroughs/John Cage 'Chance Encounter'" event at Keele University Art Gallery on May 23, 1998, and a "Burroughs event" at The Band on the Wall, in Manchester, in August 1998.

Kevin Ring offers a full-page review of Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs at page 46.

Brian Dalton's review of Timothy S. Murphy's Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs is at page 58, with a photo of Burroughs by Jon Blumb.

Pauline Reeves reviews My Kind of Angel: I. M. William Burroughs, edited by Rupert Lydell, at page 60, accompanied by an illustration of Burroughs by Dennis McCambridge.

Kevin Ring reviews Victor Bockris' With William Burroughs: Private Conversations with a Modern Genius at page 62 [which is the UK version of With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker].

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in early 1998.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19980100BSCE.0.30

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
• review of John Hopkins' The Tangier Diaries 1962-1979
• music reviews
• review of Ron Whitehead's Tapping My Own Phone
• review of Alan Watts' Zen and the Beat Way
• review of Gail Levin's Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
• review of Gay Brewer's Charles Bukowski
• review of Slow Chocolate Autopsy, by Iain Sinclair and Dave McKean
• review of Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Prose, edited by Art Lange and Nathaniel Mackey
• review of Victor Bockris' With William Burroughs: Private Conversations with a Modern Genius
• Gary Pulsifer: "Kathy Acker 1944-1997" (memorial)
• Pauline Reeves, Todd Bauer, and Dan Barth: "Beats & Co." (news)
• Charles Bukowski: "The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship" (book extract)
• Michael McClure: "The Real One (for Jack Micheline)" (poetry)
• A. D. Winans and Jack Micheline: "Poet of the People: An Interview with Jack Micheline" (interview)
• Janine Pommy Vega: "Last Days with Jack" (essay)
• A. D. Winans:
• poem (for Jack Micheline)
• review of Jack Micheline's Sixty Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints
• "Jack Micheline: Poet of the People" (essay)
• Kenneth Patchen: painting
• Ann Charters: photographs
• Jack Micheline:
• self portrait (drawing)
• poetry (in A. D. Winans review of Micheline)
• David Meltzer and Simon Warner: "David Meltzer Talks to Simon Warner" (interview)
• Gui De Angelo: photograph
• Jim Burns:
• "Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beats" (essay)
• review of Bob Kaufman's Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems
• review of Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles, edited by Clora Bryant, et al
• review of Scott Deveaux's The Birth of BeBop: A Social and Musical History
• review of In the Spirit of Jazz: The Otis Ferguson Reader, edited by Dorothy Chamberlain
• music reviews
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Massimo Sestini: photograph
• Duarte Moniz: photograph
• John Rety: "Gregory Corso's Bomb Poem" (essay)
• Brian Bell and Carolyn Cassady: "Carolyn Cassady: Live in Brighton" (interview)
• Brian Dalton:
• "Denise Levertov" (memorial)
• review of Timothy S. Murphy's Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs
• Sarah Satterlee: photograph
• "MW" and Philip Whalen: "Philip Whalen: Dharma Talks" (interview)
• Edie Parker: photograph
• Todd Bauer and Doug Brinkley: "Always On the Bus" (interview)
• Daniel Barth: "On First Looking Into Ginsberg's Sneakers" (essay)
• David Grant:
• review of Jean François Duval's Buk et les Beats
• review of Richard Deakin's Jack and Neal: Angels Still Falling: The Story of Kerouac & Cassady, A Play
• Dawn Swoop: review of Kathy Acker's Eurydice in the Underworld
• Colin Cooper:
• a combined review of four works by A. D. Winans
• review of Charles Olson: Selected Prose, edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander
• review of Edward Halsey Foster's Understanding the Black Mountain Poets
• review of John Thomas' Bukowski in the Bathtub: Recollections fo Charles Bukowski
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
• review of Kathy Acker's Bodies of Work
• Jon Blumb: photograph
• Dennis McCambridge: illustrations
• Pauline Reeves:
• review of Jordan Green's Terra Firma, USA
• review of My Kind of Angel: I. M. William Burroughs, edited by Rupert Loydell
• review of Nanao Sakaki's Let's Eat Stars
• William Young: review of Jack Foley's 'O Her Blackness Sparkles': The Life and Times of the Batman Art Gallery, San Francisco, 1960-1965

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• American Correspondents: Todd Bauer, Dan Barth
• Layout: Nivek Gnir [Kevin Ring]